Margaret Fuller: The Struggle For Women's Rights

Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridge port, Massachusetts, on May 23, 1810. She was the oldest of nine children. When she was thirty years old, she complained about the nightmare and headaches that happened because she had an unnatural childhood. She wanted to become a fulltime writer and translator Margaret Fuller, known as “woman of genius,” struggled for much of her life to carve out a sphere in which she might flourish. In volume six of History of Woman Suffrage they declared that Margaret possessed more influence upon the thought of American women than any woman previous in her time. Her activist public presence and confident persona troubled and fascinated her male friends. She embraced individuality, revolution, and sexual passion. She mocked what she had termed “the attempts of physiologists” to base any social demarcation on bodily sex. She did not just argue for the intellectual equality of women to men. When there were no institutions of higher learning open for women. From the Lawsuit Man versus Men and Woman versus Women it was said that there was four kinds of …show more content…
Fuller continued to send detailed articles about the revolution to the Tribune, but she kept her relationship with Ossoli a secret for a long time, even from family and friends in America. Fuller was expecting a child, so she moved to Rieti, outside Rome, where she gave birth to a son, Angelo, on September 5, 1848. Fuller stayed with the child until April, then left him with a nurse and returned to Ossoli and the fighting in Rome, where she directed an emergency hospital and ran supplies to her husband’s fighting unit. When the Italian liberals were finally defeated in July, 1849, Ossoli and Fuller were forced to leave Rome. They took Angelo and fled to Florence, where Fuller wrote what she thought was the most important work she had done to date: a history of the Italian