Women self dependence

Margaret Fuller, born May23, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. She was educated by her father, Timothy Fuller, a prominent lawyer and later a Congressman, at a young age. He taught her Greek and Latin at age 6. Margaret Fuller went to different schools and educated herself in German and Italian. Fuller expanded her previous work of Dial essay and published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1845, which became a classic of feminist thought. In 1846, she traveled to Europe, and in 1847, she arrived in Italy and fell in love with Marchese Giovanni Angelo d'Ossoli. They had a son a year later. On July 19, 1850, the ship going to America was caught in a storm near Fire Island, New York, taking Fuller and her family’s life.
Chevigny, Bell Gale argues about how Fuller’s life reveals self-actualization that nineteenth century New England pose as one of the most generously recognized women (pg 68). Fuller had an ill-defined instinct of considering herself as “womanly” and her hunger to know and achieve like men do. Her father had a great impact on Fuller at a young age, “His influence on me was great, … and self-forgetfulness” (pg 69-70). Her work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, gave woman’s dignity and cultural history through the years, 130 years later her death; it caused the women right movement. In the book, she called for “greater autonomy for women and character free of sexual determination.” Fuller urges women to seek power, “What women needs in not as women to act or rule, … to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home” (Margaret Fuller, pg 16). Fuller hoped women would get equal treatment as men and women are capable of holed power too.

Work cited:

[Sarah] Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Biography, American Transcendentalism Web http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/ (accessed Sat 17 Oct. 2009)

Chevigny, Bell Gale "Growing out of New England: The emergence of Margaret Fuller's radicalism." Women's Studies 5.1 (1977): 65. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Sat. 17 Oct. 2009.