ABSTRACT
Margaret Fuller was the first of ten children, five sons and five daughters, born to Timothy and Margaret Fuller. One biographer described the Fuller boys as the kind of young men who grudged the hours nature demands for sleep. When Margaret was about the age of four or five, Timothy Fuller began to plan a rigid course of study for her that saw her entire day devoted to intellectual pursuits. It is not known when she learned to read, but it must have been at an early age as Timothy began to tutor her in Latin when she was six years old. Margaret Fuller Ossoli’s contribution to the education of adults is found in four areas: her personal learning goals and activities; editorial work on behalf of the Dial; literary criticism and her dispatches from Europe for the New York Tribune; and the Conversations.
