evidence: Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was an important and influential nineteenth-century American writer, educator, and activist and is considered a pioneering feminist. Fuller was well connected in Boston literary circles and was a close associate of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Peabody, and other leading Transcendentalist writers and thinkers. In the early 1840s she co-edited The Dial, a literary journal that published Transcendentalist writing, including many of her own essays and reviews. She later wrote for the New York Tribune as a literary and cultural critic. In 1845 she expanded an essay she had written two years earlier for The Dial into Woman in the Nineteenth Century, long considered to be a classic of early feminist thought. She became a foreign correspondent for the Tribune and while covering the uprisings across Europe in 1848 married Giovanni Angelo d’Ossoli, a young revolutionary. She died tragically in 1850 in a shipwreck. She was just forty years old. Source: S. Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1845), pp. 20–27.