The Radical Life and Tragic Death of Margaret Fuller
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The Radical Life and Tragic Death of Margaret Fuller

B1IntermediateOctober 25, 202644 min
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In an era when women were expected to be silent ornaments of the drawing room, Margaret Fuller was a "mountainous me." A child prodigy who read Virgil at age four, she became the intellectual heartbeat of the American Transcendentalist movement, besting the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in heated debates. Uploaded 28-01-26 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 👉 https://bit.ly/3qTE0NR 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive...

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Margaret Fuller is inspiring. She's a leader. A thinker, a woman of ideas. She's original, she's independent. A genius, but she also really saw to the heart of the matters.

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She was a professional conversationalist. She was a woman ahead of her times. I'm going to do a little bit of a little bit of a

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