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Birth
Margaret Fuller, daughter of Margaret Crane and Timothy Fuller, is born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. -
Begins attending co-ed school
Fuller is admitted into local Cambridgeport Private Grammar School that was designed to prepared boys for their future, but also allowed girls to attend. -
Inspiration to begin a career in literature
James Freeman Clarke, a childhood friend, encourages Fuller to try authorship after being impressed by her wide range of knowledge. -
Turning Point in Fuller's Life
Fuller's father passes away and at the age of 25, she has to provide for and support her family. She takes up many jobs as teachers and charged for her Conversations to make some extra money. -
Editor of "The Dial"
Fuller accepted Ralph Waldo Emerson's request for her to become an editor for a transcendentalist journal called "The Dial". -
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Conversations
Fuller hosts gatherings in a Boston bookstore for women intellectuals and activists. The topic of the discussions ranged from human will to the arts and many women who appeared at these gatherings, went on to become leaders in the women's suffrage movement. -
Literary critic for the New York Tribune
Fuller moved to New York to work on Horace Greeley's New York Tribune as a book reviewer and critic, later becoming its first female editor. -
Publishes "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
Fuller publishes the bestselling book "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" which has many of her opinions on women's rights and is thought of as the first feminist writing in the U.S. -
Sailing to Europe
While under assignment for the New York Tribune, Fuller becomes involved in the Italian Revolution and sails to Rome to record events. While doing so, she became the first female foreign correspondent for the United States. -
Meets Giovanni Ossoli
Fuller meets Giovanni Ossoli while doing work in Rome and they soon become romantically involved and later has a son with. She also continues on her work about the revolution and has plans to publish it in America. -
Shipwreck Death
While fleeing Italy with her newly-formed family, the Elizabeth, the ship they were traveling on, shipwrecked and drowned them off the coast of Fire Island, New York.
