Margaret Fuller Research Paper

Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810. Her full name was Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, she was named after her paternal grandmother and mother and when she was nine she drooped the Sarah in her name and insisted on being called Margaret instead. She was the first child of Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane Fuller. Her father taught her to read and write when she was three and a half, he forbade her to read the typical feminine fare at the time, such as etiquette books and sentimental novels. During the day Margaret spent time with her mother, who taught her how to sew and do household chores.
Margaret started her formal education at the Port School in Cambridgeport in 1819 before going to Boston Lyceum for Young Ladies from 1819 to 1822. In 1824, she was sent to the School for Young Ladies in Gorton. On June 17, Margaret attended a
She used her knowledge to give private lessons based on the teaching style of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and she hoped to earn her living through journalism and translation. When she was 23, her father’s law practiced failed and he moved their whole family to a farm in Groton.
In the fall of 1835, she suffered a terrible migraine with a fever that lasted nine days. While she was still recovering, her father died of cholera on October 2, 1835, she was deeply affected by his death. After her father’s death, she vowed to step in as the head of the family and take care of her widowed mother and younger siblings.
In 1836, Margaret was given a job teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston. She remained there for a year and then, in April 1837, accepted an invitation to teach under Hiram Fuller, the two are not related in anyway, at the Greene Street School in Providence, Rhode Island with an unusually high salary of $1,000 per year. Her family sold the Groton farm and moved to Jamaica Plain,