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
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