Margaret Fuller Journalist Date of Birth: 23.05.1810 Country: USA

Biography of Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Her childhood was spent in seclusion, where she dedicated a lot of time to reading. However, Margaret Fuller easily integrated into the intellectual world of Boston, where she acquired friends such as R.W. Emerson and Harriet Martineau, who had a significant influence on her.

In 1840-1843, together with Emerson, she edited "The Dial" – a quarterly journal of the transcendentalists. Although Fuller was not a member of the utopian community at Brook Farm, she frequently visited and to some extent served as the prototype for Zenobia, the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Blithedale Romance."

In December 1844, she revised an essay previously published in "The Dial" into her most famous book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century." In 1846, Fuller became a foreign correspondent for the "New-York Tribune" and gradually became involved in the Italian revolutionary movement. She secretly married Marquis Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, a liberal from a conservative family.

The couple returned to Rome in 1848, where Fuller reported on the revolutionary events, culminating in the proclamation of the Roman Republic in February 1849. After its fall, Fuller, along with her husband and child, found refuge in the English-speaking colony in Florence. In the spring of 1850, the Tuscan police forced the Ossoli family to leave for America.

On July 19, their ship was wrecked near Fire Island, not far from New York City. In this catastrophe, Margaret Fuller, her husband, and child perished.