Margaret Fuller

By Lee A. Zito I was fascinated upon reading about Margaret Fuller's biography. Her writing was even more fascinating. The fact that she was such a prodigy child in the early 1800's if remarkable, because society was not primarily concerned with the education of women. Yet, her father felt the need to bring her up as an intellectual woman. Fuller, however, does not describe her education as something she enjoyed so much. As I read …

…of embracing her individuality. Her steamy affair with the Italy nobleman was her living out those stories she had only read about as a child. I feel that because of her secluded, lonely, and exhausting childhood, Fuller tried as much as she could to live her life to the fullest. Despite her tragic death in a shipwreck, many great literary authors, like Hawthorne and her dear friend, Emmerson, regarded her as a profound female writer.