Margaret Fuller
American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
Biography
Sarah Margaret Fuller, also known as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1810 and died in 1850. She worked as a journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate connected to American transcendentalism. Fuller was the first American female war correspondent and the first American female full-time book reviewer in journalism. She wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
Occupation
Margaret Fuller is recorded as a women's rights activist, a newspaperperson, a autobiographer, a abolitionist, a essayist, a philosopher, a literary critic, a journalist, a translator, a reporter and a writer, born in Massachusetts (1810–1850).
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