sentences:  Pioneering American journalist and early women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller lauded Birkbeck in her book "Summer on the Lakes" (1844), praising him for his generous communal vision, and recounting the sad circumstances of his death.Ironically, she herself also drowned tragically, in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, in 1850.Birkbeck's eldest son Richard eventually moved to New Harmony, where he died a broken man in 1839.