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Margaret Fuller

1810 - 1850

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Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was given a substantial early education by her father, Timothy Fuller, a lawyer who died in 1835 due to cholera. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Fuller is the 2,666th most popular writer (down from 2,523rd in 2019), the 3,843rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,199th in 2019) and the 305th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Margaret Fuller ranks 2,666 out of 7,302Before her are Betti Alver, John Millington Synge, Praxilla, Raul Hilberg, John Wyndham, and Louise Colet. After her are Kjell Askildsen, María Elena Walsh, Xue Tao, Carlos Marighella, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Pavlo Tychyna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Margaret Fuller ranks 48Before her are Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Christen Købke, Alexandre Calame, Norbert Burgmüller, Stanko Vraz, and Louise Colet. After her are Ferdinand David, Alexandre Herculano, Maurice de Guérin, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Johann Löwenthal, and Giovanni Lanza. Among people deceased in 1850, Margaret Fuller ranks 37Before her are Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Richard Mentor Johnson, Gustav Schwab, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Johann Gottfried Schadow, and Lorenzo Bartolini. After her are Adalbert Gyrowetz, Václav Tomášek, Lodewijk van Heiden, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, and Bernt Michael Holmboe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Fuller ranks 3,843 out of 20,380Before her are Lee Konitz (1927), Meg Foster (1948), Richard Anderson (1926), Arielle Dombasle (1953), M. Emmet Walsh (1935), and Lenny Montana (1926). After her are Paul Strand (1890), Ellen Pompeo (1969), Jeff Porcaro (1954), John Milius (1944), William P. Clark Jr. (1931), and Daniel Inouye (1924).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Margaret Fuller ranks 305Before her are D. B. Weiss (1971), Jim Thompson (1906), Seymour Hersh (1937), Andy Weir (1972), S. S. Van Dine (1888), and Terry Brooks (1944). After her are Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), Orson Scott Card (1951), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Terry Goodkind (1948), Varian Fry (1907), and Herman Wouk (1915).