Fuller, Margaret, 1810-50, American writer and lecturer, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities of her day in American literary circles. A precocious child, she was forced by her father through an education that impaired her health but nonetheless gave her a broad knowledge of literature and languages. A stimulating talker, she conducted in Boston conversation classes for society women on social and literary topics. She was an ardent feminist, and her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) treated feminism in its economic, intellectual, political, and sexual aspects. A leader of transcendentalism, she edited its premier journal, the Dial, for its first two years (1840-42). Although she has been identified as Zenobia in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance, she was never in sympathy with the Brook Farm experiment upon which the book is based. More recognizable is James Russell Lowell's caricature of her as Miranda in the Fable for Critics. Horace Greeley, attracted by her writings, including Summer on the Lakes in 1843 (1844), called her to New York City as the first literary critic of the New York Tribune, from which her Papers on Literature and Art (1846) were republished. In 1847, Fuller went to Rome, where she married the Marchese Ossoli, a follower of Mazzini, and with him took part in the Revolution of 1848-49 and wrote letters home describing the situation for Tribune readers. In 1850, while sailing to the United States, she was drowned with her husband and infant son when the ship was wrecked off Fire Island, N.Y. Her works were republished incompletely by her brother, Arthur Fuller, and her love letters were edited by Julia Ward Howe.

married name Marchesa Ossoli

(born May 23, 1810, Cambridgeport, Mass., U.S.—died July 19, 1850, at sea off Fire Island, N.Y.) U.S. critic, teacher, and woman of letters. She became part of the Transcendentalist circle (see Transcendentalism), was a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and eventually became the founding editor of the Trancendentalist magazine The Dial (1840–42). Her Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844), a study of frontier life, was followed by Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a demand for women's political equality and a plea for women's intellectual and spiritual fulfillment. She traveled to Europe in 1846 as a correspondent for the New York Tribune. In Italy she married a revolutionary marquis; forced into exile, they perished in a shipwreck while returning to the U.S.

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Margaret, a woman's first name[meaning Pearl], may refer to:

People

• Margaret (name)
• Margaret I of Denmark
• Margaret II of Denmark
• Margaret II of Flanders
• Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut
• Margaret Brown (1867-1932), RMS Titanic survivor.
• Margaret Beckett
• Margaret Cole
• Margaret de Bruce, 3rd Countess of Carrick
• Marguerite de Valois
• Margaret Douglas
• Margaret of Anjou
• Margaret of Austria (1522-1583)
• Margaret of Babenberg
• Margaret of Huntingdon
• Margaret of Scotland (Maid of Norway) (died 1290)
• Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
• Margaret Pomeranz
• Margaret of York
• Margaret Weis
• Maggie Simpson
• Margaret Thatcher
• Margaret Truman
• Tímea Vágvölgyi, a.k.a. Margot Depard, a pornographic actress and female wrestler
• Margaret Tudor
• Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of Louis XI.
• Marguerite of France (born 1158)
• Marguerite of France (born 1282)
• Margaret of Burgundy (1290-1315), queen of France.
• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
• Saint Margaret (several people with this name)
• Saint Margaret - list of saints
• Saint Margaret of Scotland
• Saint Margaret the Virgin
• Margaret of Hungary, Empress consort of Isaac II Angelos
• Margaret Atwood
• Margaret Fuller
• Margaret Reid
• Maggie Standingbear Williams

Places

• Margaret (moon), a moon of Uranus
• Margaret, Alabama
• Margaret River, Western Australia
• Margaret Island, Budapest, Hungary
• Margaret Bridge, Budapest, Hungary
• Isla Margarita, Venezuela
• Margarita Island (Colombia)
• Marghita, Romania

Ships

• Margaret, a Scottish warship
• Margaret (brig), an English ship wrecked in 1803
• USS Margaret, the name of several U.S. Navy ships

Other uses

• Margaret (novel), 1845 novel by American author Sylvester Judd
• Margaret, an American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (yet to be released)
• Margaret (magazine), Japanese shōjo manga magazine