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Margaret Fuller The Great Lawsuit Summary
Margaret Fuller, who was born with the given name Sarah Margaret Fuller, then later on with the married last name Marchesa Ossoli, is best recognized for her feminist literature in the nineteenth century. In order to know about Fuller’s feminist movements, you need to know a little about her upbringing. Fuller was born on May 23rd, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Later on passing away at a young age of 40 on July 19th, 1850 by heartbreakingly drowning when a cargo ship carrying her and her family hit a sandbank in Fire Island, New York. She was acknowledged to be very bright, advanced, and a child who received a concentrated education from her father, Timothy Fuller, who was a lawyer and a school teacher, due to the fact that educational …show more content…
Woman vs Woman, which was originally published in July 1843 in The Dial, a Transcendentalist journal edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Fuller, which is what later was republished into Women in the Nineteenth Century. The Great Lawsuit can be referenced to the feminist movement where women should perform equal roles as men in society. She completely communicates her annoyance at the predicament of women. She yelled for equal rights. In the essay, she states that in that century women were seen as not having any thought process, they were not considered their own individual self, they were just tied to the men like a puppy dog on a …show more content…
They offered an organized educational atmosphere for women at the time where education just was not a possibility, when some thought it was inadequate for women to have an education. Fuller thought that these conversations represented an awakening for women. All while teaching these classes, Fuller still served as the editor of the Transcendentalist journal, The Dial. Topics included Greek, Latin, and several other topics that she learned as a child from her father. The first conversation took place in 1839, and 10 women supposedly partaken. The city of Boston was chosen as the starting point for the conversations due to the fact that Fuller thought that if they did not thrive in Boston, that it would not flourish anywhere else in the United

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