As a child, she pursued a rigorous education at home, steeping herself in the classics and in German.
As a child, she pursued a rigorous education at home, steeping herself in the classics and in German. In 1844, Summer on the Lakes, an account of a trip to the Midwest, led Horace Greeley to hire her as literary critic for his New York Tribune, making her one of the first self-supporting American woman journalists. FTP, name the intellectual who died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, in 1850, best known for befriending Emerson and editing The Dial from 1840 to 1842.
As a child, she pursued a rigorous education at home, steeping herself in the classics and in German.
Margaret Fuller