Around age 25, Fuller began teaching at Bronson Alcott’s school. Two years later, she be­came the principal teach­er at the Green Street School in Providence, Rhode Island. She moved to near Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts, in 1839, and lived there five years. In 1840, she founded The Dial magazine, pub­lishing po­et­ry and philosophical ar­ti­cles. From 1844 to 1846, she lived in New York, and con­trib­ut­ed literary criticism to Horace Greeley’s The Tribune. She toured Eng­land, France and Italy in 1846, meeting and mar­ried Marchese Giovanni Ossoli. She, her hus­band and child died when their ship was wrecked on their way to Amer­i­ca.

Her works in­clude:

• A trans­la­tion of Conversa­tions with Goethe, by Eckermann, cir­ca 1840
• Summer on the Lakes in 1843, 1844
• Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
• Papers on Literature and Art, cir­ca 1845
• Life Within and Life Without, pub­lished posthumously in 1859

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