Men, Women and Margaret Fuller
“Humanity is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller,” – Edgar Allan Poe “The greatest woman of ancient or modern times,” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday was the 201st birthday of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). If you’ve never heard of Margaret Fuller, you are not alone. Although she hung out with the likes of Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fuller seems to have slipped through the cracks compared to 19th century feminists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Victoria Woodhull. Yet in her forty years on the planet, Fuller managed to accomplish a lot. Just take a gander at just a few of her firsts (from the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Site ): • First American to write a book about equality for women, Woman in the 19th century (1845). • First woman foreign correspondent and first woman war correspondent to serve under combat conditions, covering the revolutions of 1849. • First woman journalist for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribu...