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Margaret Fuller Ossoll 1810 ~ 1850
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller was a woman of most
eccentric genius and great mental powers. She was born May 23,
1810, the daughter of Timothy Fuller, Esq. of Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
In very early life Miss Fuller was put
to the study of classical languages and showed wonderful power
of acquisition. She then turned to living tongues and before she
reached a mature age she was accounted a giant of philological
accomplishments. Indeed she poured over the German philosophers
until her very being became imbued with their transcendental
doctrines.
She was the best educated woman in the
country and devoted her life to raising the standard of woman's
intellectual training. To this effect she opened classes for
women's instruction in several of the larger towns of New
England.
Her first publication was a translation of Goethe's "Conversation,''
which appeared in 1839. In the following year she was employed
by the publisher of the "Dial," at whose head was Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and she aided in the editorship of that journal
for several years.
In 1843 Miss Fuller moved to New York
and entered into arrangement with the publishers of the Tribune,
to aid in its literary department. This same year she made
public her best literary effort, her "Summer
on the Lakes," a journal of a journey to the
West.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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