Margaret Fuller (1) (1810–1850)

Margaret Fuller was born in Massachusetts and educated at home by her father. She went away to school and continued her reading of the classics and study of languages, learning German, French, Italian, Greek, and Latin. She became a teacher, and a member of the Transcendentalist movement and Boston literary circles. In 1845, she published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, a feminist tract that grew into a book, and with Ralph Wald Emerson co-founded the Transcendentalist journal, The Dial. In 1844, she relocated to New York City to serve as literary and cultural critic for he New York Tribune. In 1846, she travelled to Europe to serve as a foreign correspondent for the Tribune. After touring England and France, she went to Rome, where she met Marchese Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a son. The couple married and decided to return to the USA. They set sail from Livorno, Italy on May 17, 1850, reaching the waters off Fire Island, New York on June 19. In the early hours of the morning, the ship struck a sandbar and slowly sank. Margaret Fuller was lost at sea.