Margaret Fuller: Woman In The 19th Century

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Imagine making a world where everyone would live equally, a place where nobody would judge one another for what they may or may not be. Margaret Fuller believed that if woman achieved equality in education, they would be able to have equal political rights as well. Taking many trips around the world has given her a chance to see the differences in both woman and man and see how to make some of the differences into similarities. Margaret has given the woman all around the world a tiny spark of hope to be treated like any other living organism on the earth. Sarah Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first child born of the Fullers with two siblings, her brother Arthur and her sister Ellen Fuller. Frustrated …show more content…

A year after the book came out, Sarah took a trip back to Europe for the Tribune and then went to England and France where she was noticed as a hardworking, young lady. Sarah traveled to Italy in 1847, where she met a man named Giovanni Angelo and after a few years, they secretly got married. The Roman Revolution came in the same year in 1849, Sarah and her husband fled to Florence. While they fled, Sarah started to write about the Roman Revolution in a book so others would know what it was like. In the middle of the 1850’s, the couple sailed for the United States with their infant son, Angelo, however the ship perished half way into Fire Island, New York. None of their bodies were found and neither was the history of Roman Revolution Sarah was writing. Even though Sarah Margaret Fuller has died, she will be remembered throughout the living of equality between genders. She was and still is an important part of America because she was passionate about woman’s education. For she believed that if woman had equality in learning, they would also have equality through political rights. One of her most famous quotes was, “When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try,” shows the truth that doubts can push your hope

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