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Entity explores the life of a famous woman in history Margaret Fuller.

In our ongoing series, #WomenThatDid, ENTITY profiles inspirational and famous women in history whose impact on our world can still be felt today. If you have a suggestion for a historical powerhouse you would like to see featured, tweet us with the hashtag #WomenThatDid. 

Name: Margaret Fuller

Lifetime: May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850

What she’s known for: Fuller was a highly-educated American journalist, critic and women’s rights advocate. She was also a huge contributor to transcendentalism, a philosophical movement that connects humans, nature and the divine. She and other literary theorists, like Emerson and Thoreau, established the first transcendentalist journal, and she was also the editor of the first issue.

After publishing her first book she was offered the position of literary critic at the New York Tribune. Her next book, “Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” has since become a feminist classic. It was inspired by the subjects discussed in her conference-like public series, “Conversations.” She later became a foreign correspondent, becoming involved in the Italian Revolution and falling in love with an Italian man. They had a child together, but on the family’s trip back to the U.S., all three were killed in a ship wreck.

Why we love her: Margaret Fuller was an extremely accomplished woman who also proves that there is plenty of room at the top for women. When she was in Boston, with the help of Sophia Dana Ripley, she established her “Conversations,” series, which was “designed to encourage women in self-expression and independent thinking.” Not only was Fuller successful in the literary world, but she helped give other women a platform to speak their own minds.

Fun fact: Fuller was the first woman on an American newspaper’s editorial staff.

RELATED: #WomenThatDid: Susan B. Anthony

Edited by Ellena Kilgallon
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