Sarah Margaret Fuller is often referred to only as Margaret Fuller. The reason I chose to write about her is because I found it interesting that she was known as "America's first true feminist," among other things as an editor, journalist, teacher, and literary critic. I think since she was a woman in the 19th century, she worked hard to build a good reputation for herself. Her works that I chose to write about specifically are "The Great Lawsuit", a profound essay arguing for women's equality, and "The Fourth of July", an essay written to describe the values ​​that Margaret believed that America had lost. Sarah Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts on May 23, 1810, she later dropped her first name for professional purposes. She was the first of nine children. His father, Timothy Fuller, was a lawyer, congressman, and highly educated. In her younger years, her father educated her rigorously, teaching her Latin, Greek, French and Italian. She spent many hours a day studying, and by the age of ten she had read stories such as Shakespeare and many other classics. At fourteen, she left her family to go to school, and a year later she returned home to continue her studies (Baym). ​​Margaret had big dreams of one day becoming a writer, but those dreams were put on hold when her father suddenly died in 1835. At that time, her mother was also ill and it fell to her to take care of her family's finances. . There were not many job opportunities available for women at that time, so she found a job as a teacher and accepted the position. She began teaching at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston and taught there until she continued teaching in the middle of the well-known...always changing paper, and believed that America needed to bring about changes for the better. She expressed her opinion that America should not settle for what it had become and was not afraid to share her opinion on what it should be. July 4 is a very important day for America and its people. Without this day, the situation would not be what it is today. Works cited by Baym, Nina and Robert S. Levine. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York London: WW Norton & Company, 2012. “Margaret Fuller” print. American Transcendentalism Web. Np, and Web. May 2, 2014. .The editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica. “Margaret Fuller (American author and educator).” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, nd Web. May 3 2014. .