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Margaret Fuller, daughter of Margaret Crane and Timothy Fuller, is born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
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Fuller is admitted into local Cambridgeport Private Grammar School that was designed to prepared boys for their future, but also allowed girls to attend.
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James Freeman Clarke, a childhood friend, encourages Fuller to try authorship after being impressed by her wide range of knowledge.
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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.
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Fuller accepted Ralph Waldo Emerson's request for her to become an editor for a transcendentalist journal called "The Dial".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
