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Margaret Fuller
1810–1850
A bold voice in American letters, she helped shape Transcendentalism while pushing early conversations about women's rights into the public eye. Her writing blends sharp criticism, moral seriousness, and a restless curiosity about how people might live more fully.
7 Audiobooks
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 II
by Margaret Fuller
Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.
by Margaret Fuller
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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 original literary figures of her time. She was a critic, teacher, editor, translator, and journalist, and she moved in the circle of Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalists. Fuller also edited The Dial, an important magazine for the movement.
She is especially remembered for Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a groundbreaking book that argued for women's intellectual and social freedom. Her work as a reviewer and essayist made her one of the strongest critical voices in 19th-century America, and she is often described as a pioneer for women in journalism.
Later, Fuller reported from Europe, becoming one of the first American women to work as a foreign correspondent. She died in 1850 in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, but her life and writing continue to stand out for their energy, independence, and courage.