Maragret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810.  She is known for her feminist writing during the Transcendentalist movement, a time when the role of women in society was limited.  She was a colleague and condidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson.  She published several books, and was a correspondent for the New York Tribune for a time.  There were laws against women giving speeches in public, so she called them "Conversations."  She was also the editor of the magazine of the transcendalists, The Dial.  There she published her earliest works.  

 

She traveled to Britain in 1847, but Ralph Waldo Emerson asked her to come home.  She declined saying that she enjoyed the freedom that she had found in Europe.  She met a younger man, married and had a child.  She lived in Italy during this time and wrote of the upheaval occuring at the time in Italy, comparing it to the American Revolution.

 

In 1850, she decided to return to America.  She and her family booked passage on a sailing ship bound for New York City.  The ship had many troubles on the voyage and sank eventually off Long Island.  Fuller was killed, being only 40 when she passed away.

 

She served as an advocate for women's rights through her writings, no telling what else she could have accomplished had she not passed away so soon.