Margaret Fuller
(1810-1850)

American Transcendentalist Leader,
Early Women's Rights Advocate
National Women's Hall of Fame

birthdate: May 23
birthplace: Cambridgeport, Massachusetts

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Sarah Margaret Fuller was an author, editor and teacher and one of the leading intellectuals of 19th century America. Her most famous work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century was a major influence in the developing women's rights movement. Margaret Fuller was also a leader in the transcendentalist movement. She was a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, another transcendentalist leader. In her essays, she adapted Emerson's idea of self-reliance with a feminist slant. He had declared that we have a divine energy within us; she argued that both men and women also have powerful female energies inside.