Margaret Fuller: Her Life and Writings

1810 Sarah Margaret Fuller born at Cambridgeport, Mass (May 23)

1818 Fuller meets Ellen Kilshaw, the "first friend" that she describes in "Autobiographical Sketch"
  1. Attends Dr. John Park’s school in Boston

1823-1824 Student at Miss Prescott’s school, Groton, Mass.
    1. Flowering at Cambridge. Companions to William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Frederick Henry hedge.
  1. Moves with family to Groton, Mass.

Translates Goethe’s Torquato Tasso

1835 Timothy Fuller dies; Margaret becomes the breadwinner and head of family.
  1. First visit to Emerson in Concord

Begins teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston.

 

1840 The first issue of the Dial is published with Fuller as editor. Edits the Dial form July 1840-July 1842

1841 Brook Farm started. Margaret and Emerson are well-wishers but prize individuality too much to join the "association."

1843 Takes western trip with James and Sarah Clarke, which is noted in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.

1846 Publication of Papers on Literature and Art; travels in England, Scotland, and France; acts as foreign correspondent for Greeley’s Tribune.

1847 Meets Marchese Ossoli, and marries him later that year because Fuller is pregnant.

1848 Son is born
  1. Drowns at Fire Island when sailing back to America.

Writings

Translated Goethe’s Torquato Tasso

"In Defense of Brutus"- Boston Daily Advertiser & Patriot

Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe

Series of Conversations for Women: Greek Mythology

"Goethe"- Dial

Series of Conversations: Mythology, later published as Margaret and Her Friends

"Bettine Bretano and her Friend Gunderode"

Translated Correspondence of Fraulein Gunderode with Bettine von Arnim

"The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman verses Women"

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

Love-Letter of Margaret Fuller 1845-1846

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Papers on Literature and Art

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (compiled and edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman (edited by Arthur B. Fuller)

At Home and Abroad, or Thoughts and Things in American and Europe (edited in Arthur B. Fuller)

Life Without and Life Within (edited by Arthur B. Fuller)

Reviews, Narratives, Essays and Poems (edited by Arthur B. Fuller)

Margaret and Her Friends (Caroline W. healey)

Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller Upon the Mythology of the Greeks and Its Expression in Art Held at the House of the Rev. George Ripley…Beginning March 1, 1841 (Caroline W. Healey)

Sources

http:////www.arh.eku.edu/Eng/KOPACZ/CHRON.HTM

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=63

http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/fuller-m.html

http://courses.washington.edu/hom523/fuller/Chronology.shtml

http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/fuller.html

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/baym/255/lecture16.htm