Biography of margaret fuller

(1810-1850)

Who Was Margaret Fuller?

Margaret Fuller became entwined with intellectuals around Massachusetts, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fuller then conducted "Conversations" with prominent intellectuals of the day and starting the journal The Dial, a transcendentalist magazine.

Early Life and Education

Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.

Her father, Timothy Fuller, was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer-politician who, disappointed that his child was not a boy, educated her rigorously in the classical curriculum of the day. She didn't attend school until she was 14 and then returned to Cambridge and her course of reading.

Her intellectual precociousness gained her the acquaintance of various Cambridge intellectuals, but her assertive and intense manner put many people off. Her father moved the family to a farm in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1833, and she found herself isolated and forced to help educate her