My full name is Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, but ever since I was nine I’ve gone by Margaret Fuller. I was born in Cambridge Massachusetts on May 23rd 1810, the oldest of my two other siblings, and grew up during a time when formal education and suffrage were restricted from women. My mother, Margaret Crane Fuller, taught me the traditional women’s gender roles, such as household chores and sewing, but my father, Timothy Fuller, a prominent lawyer and representative in the House from 1817 to 1825, provided me with an education as rigorous as any man’s. By the time I was three and a half, I was able to read and write, and later, instead of reading typical female etiquette books, I was studying Greek and Latin and translating Virgil.
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