The American author, editor, and reformer Margaret Fuller holds a uniquely important place in 19th century history. Often remembered as a colleague and confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others of the New England Transcendentalist movement, Fuller was also a feminist at a time when the role of women in society was severely limited.
Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, on May 23, 1810, she was the daughter of Timothy Fuller and his wife, Margaret (Crane). Her father was a lawyer and politician who once served in both the Massachusetts legislature as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. Fuller showed her intellectual nature from an early age.
Name at birth: Sarah Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller was a New England intellectual and journalist whose 1845 book Woman in the Nineteenth Century was a key influence on American women suffragists of the era. It's said Fuller was sharp of mind and tongue, and prominent writers and thinkers of the time found her both compelling and off-putting because of her breadth of knowledge and her stridency.
Margaret Fuller’s major work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, published in 1845, profoundly affected the women’s rights movement which had its formal beginning at the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York three years later. Fuller “possessed more influence on the thought of American women than any woman previous to.
Besides encouraging persons including Bronson Alcott, George Ripley, Theodore Parker, James Freeman Clarke, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to make contributions of essays and articles Margaret Fuller also wrote much of the content of The Dial herself. The editorship was indeed officially hers during the period 1839-2 and she.
Margaret Fuller’s ideas of gender are forward yet adequate ideologies. Nathaniel Hawthorne has a different yet common take on gender, roles of men and places of women. His beliefs are but biased and clear in his writings such as Birthmark and Young Goodman Brown, with characters built around the same formula (a strong, proud male, a beautiful female who seems but a pawn in the greater plans.