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Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller. May 23, 1810-July 19, 1850. What’s Ahead. Background Fame Success Affects Death. Childhood. At age six, She began learning Latin, English grammar, Mathematics , History, And music

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Margaret Fuller

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  1. Margaret Fuller May 23, 1810-July 19, 1850

  2. What’s Ahead • Background • Fame • Success • Affects • Death

  3. Childhood • At age six, She began learning Latin, English grammar, Mathematics, History, And music • Attended Various Schools as a child, But mostly taught at home by her father (Timothy Fuller) • Was a brilliant student, but unpopular with the other kids and didn’t fit in well

  4. The beginning • After school, Margaret was a teacher, and took a heavy interest in reading • In 1833, Timothy Fuller moved the family to a farm in Massachusetts; Margaret began writing. Publishing Essays in Boston Papers and Translated a drama by Goethe. • Timothy Fuller suddenly died in the winter of 1835, leaving Margaret to take his place. She struggled heavily; between her younger siblings and protecting her mothers’ interests.

  5. New Life • In 1839 Fuller moved her family from the Groton farm to a rented house in Jamaica Plain, five miles from Boston • She took a teaching position at the Greene Street School in Providence • At a local bookshop, she held many series of conversations that attracted women of the city and surrounding areas • Though women were able to be taught the same things as men, they had less opportunity to use it. Fuller provided a meeting where women could discuss what they knew, free to explore ideas and speak their own thoughts on topics such as classical mythology, ethics, education, the fine arts

  6. Transcendentalists • In 1838 she became the editor of a Transcendentalist journal, the Dial • She served this position for over 3 years; passing, denying, and often even writing her own articles for the paper • Things took off in 1843, with her essay “The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men and Woman vs. Women”

  7. In 1845, Fuller had “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” published • Her new book revealed her enormous knowledge of literature and philosophy as she described the oppression of the female sex through history and advocated equal status for women • This was her most famous book published, it was noted by the New York Tribune, she was then offered by the paper to write for them • For the Tribune, Fuller wrote essays and reviews

  8. Abroad • On the eve of the 1848 uprisings in Italy, Austria and France, Fuller plunged into the turmoil. • No longer the "outsider" she seemed to be in New England, she felt at home in Italy, free to be herself • When war broke out, she saw a role for herself "either as actor or historian." To her the revolution meant “freedom and human rights for the laboring class and for women”. • She rededicated herself to Rome, and sent vivid eye-witness reports to the Tribune

  9. A mother • Soon after she arrived in Rome, she met a twenty-six-year-old nobleman, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli. • She often was with this young man in what soon became a serious attachment. • In the summer of 1848, she retreated to the village of Rieti where her son, Angelo Eugenio FilippoOssoli, was born on September 7. • It is not clear whether Fuller and Ossoli ever married. • In 1849, she sent a packet of letters to her mother and other friends, telling of Ossoli and the birth of their son.

  10. A tragic Ending • In May, 1850, the Ossolis sailed for New York on the merchant freighter, Elizabeth. Not long after leaving port, the captain died of smallpox. • Baby Angelo caught the disease but recovered during the voyage. • The inexperienced replacement pilot after the captain's death miscalculated his position and was unaware of an approaching hurricane. During the night before the ship's expected landfall, it struck a sandbar within sight of Fire Island and began to break up. • Some crew members managed to reach shore, but the wind and high surf made it impossible to launch a lifeboat. • The Ossoli family perished on July 19, 1850.

  11. Inspiration • Margaret Fuller was an inspiration to many, many, woman across the country, she wrote heavily about women’s rights and inspired many to step up and do something with their lives, she was the original women’s rights leader • To ask if she had any effect on today’s society is simply silly, she started the movement towards women’s rights, which women have every right a man does today

  12. quotes • “Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved” • “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it” • “Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live” • “For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.”

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