History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1812 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Margaret Fuller
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The idea
Margaret Fuller was a leading transcendentalist and an advocate of women's equality, on friendly terms with both Emerson and Thoreau.
In practice
Fuller barred from attending Harvard, which admitted no women undergraduates until nineteen seventy-three.
Where people slip
She was granted library access on intellectual merit, edited The Dial from eighteen forty, and died at forty in a shipwreck.
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