Margaret Fuller
Personal Background:
• May 23, 1810
• Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
• Timothy Fuller, my father, taught me Greek and Latin at a young age. I attended several schools and continued to educate myself.
• Why I am notable:
-I served with Emerson as editor of The Dial a literary and philosophical journal
-I worked for the New York Tribune as book review editor
-I became the foreign correspondent for the Tribune in 1846
• My contributions:
-I wrote The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men, Woman versus Women in which I called for women's equality.
-I also wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century which became a classic of feminist thought
Issues:
• Women’s rights, women’s education, women’s intellectual and spiritual fulfillment
• I believe women and men are equal. Women should be able to do everything a man can do in society.
• Morality- I believe it is only right to let women and men have an equal opportunity in life. I was a strong Christian.
Personal Background:
• May 23, 1810
• Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
• Timothy Fuller, my father, taught me Greek and Latin at a young age. I attended several schools and continued to educate myself.
• Why I am notable:
-I served with Emerson as editor of The Dial a literary and philosophical journal
-I worked for the New York Tribune as book review editor
-I became the foreign correspondent for the Tribune in 1846
• My contributions:
-I wrote The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men, Woman versus Women in which I called for women's equality.
-I also wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century which became a classic of feminist thought
Issues:
• Women’s rights, women’s education, women’s intellectual and spiritual fulfillment
• I believe women and men are equal. Women should be able to do everything a man can do in society.
• Morality- I believe it is only right to let women and men have an equal opportunity in life. I was a strong Christian.
Solutions:
•In my book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), I propose plans for relieving women's social restrictions and using their abilities to the fullest. I believe women should advocate for equal rights on their own in addition to the government changing legislation.
• The government often disagreed with my argument but I believed, once equal educational rights were afforded women, women could push for equal political rights as well. I was successful in my fight for women’s rights because today women are equal both in terms of education and politics.
• The government often disagreed with my argument but I believed, once equal educational rights were afforded women, women could push for equal political rights as well. I was successful in my fight for women’s rights because today women are equal both in terms of education and politics.
Relationship to Others:
• I was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Many leaders in the abolition movement were strong proponents of the women’s rights movement, so I agree with them on many issues.
• I am one of the most famous feminists. I believe women and men are equal.
• Women should have the same opportunity for education as men.
• I advocated reform at all levels of society including prison.
• I was invited to Brook Farm, the utopian community.
• My claim of a woman as an immortal being reflects transcendentalist thought.
I would feel comfortable talking to Ralph Waldo Emerson because I worked with him at The Dial for years. I would also like to talk to Elizabeth Cady Stanton because she was a leader in the early Women’s movement too. Andrew Jackson was a proponent for women’s rights too.
I would feel least comfortable talking to John Humphrey Noyes because he was an American utopian socialist, so we don’t have much in common. Also, I would not like to talk to William Lloyd Garrison because he is concerned with slavery and I am concerned with Women’s rights.
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2708189/Women_in_the_19th_century
Source- Woman in the Nineteenth Century: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/woman1.html
• Many leaders in the abolition movement were strong proponents of the women’s rights movement, so I agree with them on many issues.
• I am one of the most famous feminists. I believe women and men are equal.
• Women should have the same opportunity for education as men.
• I advocated reform at all levels of society including prison.
• I was invited to Brook Farm, the utopian community.
• My claim of a woman as an immortal being reflects transcendentalist thought.
I would feel comfortable talking to Ralph Waldo Emerson because I worked with him at The Dial for years. I would also like to talk to Elizabeth Cady Stanton because she was a leader in the early Women’s movement too. Andrew Jackson was a proponent for women’s rights too.
I would feel least comfortable talking to John Humphrey Noyes because he was an American utopian socialist, so we don’t have much in common. Also, I would not like to talk to William Lloyd Garrison because he is concerned with slavery and I am concerned with Women’s rights.
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2708189/Women_in_the_19th_century
Source- Woman in the Nineteenth Century: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/woman1.html
Boyte
I,Lydia Maria Child, would feel most comfortable sitting with you at table because we are such great friends and we shared the same feelings toward women in society.
ReplyDeleteI'm Angelina Grimke, and I would feel most comfortable witting with you at the table because we share the same idea of equality for women. I would love to know more about the utopian community and how will it changed women's social lives.
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