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Margaret Fuller
1810–1850
A brilliant voice of American transcendentalism, she helped shape early literary criticism and argued boldly for women's intellectual freedom. Her life joined sharp thinking with fearless reporting, ending tragically in a shipwreck at just forty.
7 Audiobooks
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
by Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.
by Margaret Fuller
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
by Margaret Fuller
Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.
by Margaret Fuller
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
by Margaret Fuller
At Home and Abroad; Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe
by Margaret Fuller
About the author
Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, in 1810, Margaret Fuller became one of the most remarkable literary figures of her generation. She was a critic, teacher, editor, translator, and reform-minded writer whose intense education and wide reading set her apart early on.
Fuller was deeply involved with the transcendentalist circle around Ralph Waldo Emerson and served as the first editor of The Dial, an important journal of the movement. She is especially remembered for Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a pioneering work that challenged the limits placed on women and made a lasting mark on American feminist thought.
She later worked for the New-York Tribune, where she became a major literary journalist and reported from Europe, including on the Italian revolutions. In 1850, while returning to the United States with her family, she died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, leaving behind a body of work that still feels bold, searching, and modern.