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Margaret Fuller |
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Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 |
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1810 |
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Ossoli, Sarah Margaret, née Fuller, Marchesa, an American Unitarian writer of note, daughter of the Hon. Timothy Fuller, was born at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810, and in after years was engaged for some time in educational work in Boston and Providence. In 1840 she edited the Dial; and in 1847 was married at Rome, to the Marchese Ossoli. On July 16, 1850, she was lost in a shipwreck near New York. Her Memoirs, by R. W. Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke, appeared in 1851; and her Works in 1874. Her hymn "Jesus, a child His course began" (Christ the Pattern of Childhood), from Life Without and Life Within, 1859, p. 404, is in common use in Great Britain and America.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
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