Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller was born on May 23,1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. She was a women’s rights activist as well as a writer and literary critic. She started attending school at age fourteen. Fuller also joined Ralph Waldo Emerson and others to create the Dial, a journal devoted to transcendentalist views in 1840. Her first book is called “Summer on the Lakes” in 1844 and it was based on a trip through the Midwest. She also published her feminist classic, “Woman in the Nineteenth Century, in 1845. She also became active in various social reform movements.

In England and in France she was regarded as a serious intellectual and met many prominent people. She was married to Giovanni Angelo who she met in Italy in 1847 and had a son in 1848. I like Margaret Fuller because she represents a few of the women who became successful in American History and who believed that women should have the same rights as men. She was well educated and intellectual. She died on July 19, 1850.