SARAH MARGARET FULLER, MARCHESA OSSOLI, Author,
conversationalist, feminist, and Transcendentalist, Ma rgaret
Fuller (1810-1850) was America's first woman correspondent and
reported to Americans on the Italian revolution of 1848-49. Her
sympathies lay with the republicans, and she used her writing to
enlist the sympathy and aid of Americans in the cause of Italian
independence and unification. Sarah Margaret Fuller was born in
Cambridgeport, Massachusetts on May 1810, the oldest of eight
children born to Timothy and Margaret Crane Fuller. Her father,
a Harvard-educated lawyer and stern New England Puritan,
believed women were the intellectual equals of men and educated
his first-born accordingly. Supervised by her father--even when
he was serving in congress-- Margaret Fuller followed a rigorous
regimen of classical studies, learning Latin (in which she was
fluent by age six) and Greek as well as German, French, and
Italian. As an adult, Margaret Fuller gravitated to the
northeastern intellectual establishmen