[Revised entry by Daniel Howe and Sonia Di Loreto on March 16, 2026.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), one of the most important American feminists of her day, was a philosopher, journalist, and literary critic. She belonged to the New England intellectual community called the transcendentalists, who also included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Her most important written work is Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), an expansion of her article entitled "The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women" (1843). Fuller is remembered not only for...