Margaret Fuller

1. Margaret Fuller India Bullock and Ariel Riddle

2. Biography Sarah Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810 in Cambridge port, Massachusetts. She was an intelligent child and her father supported that feature by giving her the best education. When her father, a congressmen, died , it brought financial and educational troubles to her family. Margaret stepped up to the plate by teaching her younger siblings and working as a school teacher even though it took away from her writing endeavors. For the next five years of her life, she accomplished various deeds as a young woman. In 1839, she established herself as a brilliant conversationalist. In 1840-1842, she worked along side Emerson as editor of The Dial. She published her first woman’s equality essay in this very article in 1843. She later went on to publish many more pieces, on one of her trips to Europe she met the love of her life Giovanni Angelo d'Ossoli. She died at the age 40 in Fire Island, New York on July 19, 1850.

3. 3 interesting facts • She was born as Sarah Margaret Fuller and dropped the Sarah later in life. • Margaret Fuller was a known women's rights advocate. • She died in a shipwreck 100 yards from shore, rumor has it she wanted to stay behind to die.

4. 2 passage and a analysis walk into a bar… The Great Lawsuit. Men versus Men. Women versus Women Women in the nineteenth century “This great suit has now been carried on through many ages, with various results. The decisions have been numerous, but always followed by appeals to still higher courts. How can it be otherwise, when the law itself is the subject of frequent elucidation, constant revision? Man has, now and then, enjoyed a clear, triumphant hour, when some irresistible conviction warmed and purified the atmosphere of his planet. But, presently, he sought repose after his labors, when the crowd of pigmy adversaries bound him in his sleep. Long years of inglorious imprisonment followed, while his enemies revelled in his spoils, and no counsel could be found to plead his cause, in the absence of that all-promising glance, which had, at times, kindled the poetic soul to revelation of his claims, of his rights.” “Meanwhile, not a few believe, and men themselves have expressed the opinion, that the time is come when Eurydice is to call for an Orpheus, rather than Orpheus for Eurydice; that the idea of Man, however imperfectly brought out, has been far more so than that of Woman; that she, the other half of the same thought, the other chamber of the heart of life, needs now take her turn in the full pulsation, and that improvement in the daughters will best aid in the reformation of the sons of this age.”

5. ... Still walking... When reading deeper into the passage brought out in the book “Women in the Nineteenth Century”. It becomes clear that Margaret is trying to explain her point through her use of allusion, parallelism and contrast. She wants to make known that it is now the time for women to stand up and take charge and the men to take more of a back seat in order to make this world a better place.

6. Margaret Style! She was generally known as a Transcendentalist writer, because she was constantly rebelling against the idea of what the role of women was in that time period.