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Margaret Fuller
Summer On The Lakes, in 1843

Chronology

Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa d'Ossoli
1810 - 1850

1778 Timothy Fuller born, Margaret Fuller's father.
1789 Margarett Crane born, Margaret Fuller's mother.
1801 Timothy Fuller graduates from Harvard.
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson born. Died 1882.
1804 (1804 - 1806) Lewis and Clark Expedition.
1809 Marriage of Timothy Fuller and Margarett Crane.
1810 (May 23) Sarah Margaret Fuller born at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
1812 Birth of Julia Adelaide Fuller.
1814 Death of Julia Adelaide Fuller. Age 18 months.
1815 Birth of Eugene Fuller.
1817 Timothy Fuller begins serving the first of four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Birth of William Henry Fuller.
Henry David Thoreau born. Died 1862.
1818 Fuller meets Ellen Kilshaw, the "first friend" that she describes in "Autobiographical Sketch."
1821 Attends Dr. John Park's school in Boston.
1822 Birth of Arthur Buckminster Fuller
1823 Begins attending Miss Prescott's Young Ladies' Seminary in Groton, Massachusetts.
1824 Birth of Richard Frederick Fuller
1825 Timothy Fuller retires from Congress.
Margaret Fuller returns to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1826 Birth of James Lloyd Fuller.
1828 (May 23) Edward Breck Fuller born on Margaret Fuller's eighteenth birthday.
1833 Moves with her family to Groton, Massachusetts. Teaches the younger children of the family: Arthur, Ellen, Richard, Lloyd.
Translates Goethe's Torquato Tasso.
1834 (November 27) Publishes her first article, "In Defense of Brutus," in the Boston Daily Advertiser & Patriot.
1835 (July) Visits Niagara Falls.
(October 1) Father, Timothy Fuller, dies from cholera. Margaret cancels her European trip with John and Eliza Farrar.
1836 (July) First visit to Emerson in Concord.
(Winter) Begins teaching at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston. Gives private language lessons.
1837 Emerson delivers "American Scholar" address to Harvard graduating class.
(April) Leaves Boston for a respite in Groton.
(June) Moves to Providence, Rhode Island, and begins teaching at the Green Street School.
1838 (December) Leaves position at Green Street School and moves to Boston. Gives private language lessons.
1839 (May or June) Publishes Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe. Continues working on the life of Goethe.
(April) Moves with her mother and younger brothers to Jamaica Plain, near Boston.
(October) Nominated as the editor of the Transcendental periodical, the Dial.
(November) Begins the first series of Conversations for adult women. The topic is Greek mythology.
1840 (July) The first issue of the Dial is published. Edits the Dial  from July 1840 until July 1842.
(November) Begins series of Conversations on the fine arts.
1841 Publishes essay, "Goethe" in the Dial.
(March - May) Gives a series of Conversations on mythology. It is attended by Caroline Dall [Healey] whose notes are later published as Margaret and Her Friends.
(May) Visits Concord and Brook Farm.
(September) Sister Ellen marries William Ellery Channing.
(November) Begins a series of Conversations on ethics
1842 Publishes "Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Günderode" in the Dial.
Publishes translation of Correspondence of Fraulein Günderode with Bettine von Arnim.
(March) Resigns as editor of the Dial.
1843 (May) Finishes "The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women" and sends it off to the Dial for publication. It was later developed into Woman in the Nineteenth Century. (1845)
(May 25) Begins the journey commemorated in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. With the financial assistance of Sarah Shaw and James Freeman Clarke, Fuller travels with Sarah Ann Clark and her brother James Freeman Clark. Visits Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois.
(July) "The Great Lawsuit" published.
(September 19) Returns from journey to Boston.
(Winter) Begins a series of Conversations on education.
1844 (April) Concludes final series of Conversations.
(June) Publishes Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.
(November) Begins residing in Horace Greeley's household in New York.
Begins literary editorship at the New-York Daily Tribune.
(November) Visits women prisoners at Sing Sing.
(December 7) Publishes her first critical piece in the New-York Daily Tribune.
(December) Meets and falls in love with James Nathan. Her letters to him are published as Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller 1845-1846 (1903)
1845 (February) Meets James Nathan and falls in love.
(February) Publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
(June) James Nathan leaves for Europe.
(July 4) Thoreau goes to Walden Pond.
1846 Resigns literary editorship at New-York Daily Tribune  and takes a position as foreign correspondent with the same paper.
(August) Sails for Europe with Marcus and Rebecca Spring.
(August) Publishes Papers on Literature and Art.
Travels in England, Scotland, and France. Meets Mazzini, Carlyle and Wordsworth in England.
1847 (February) Leaves France for Italy.
(April-May) Visits Rome and meets Giovanni Angelo Ossoli.
(June-October) Leaves France and travels in northern Italy and Switzerland,
(October) Begins residing in Rome.
1848 (May) Begins residing in Rieti, near Rome, and makes visits to Rome.
(September 5) Her son, Angelo Ossoli, is born.
(November) Pellegrino Rossi assassinated and Pope Pius IX flees Rome.
1849 (February) Roman Republic proclaimed.
(April) Siege of Rome by France begins. French invade Rome and restore Pope to power.
(April) Begins working in a hospital in Rome while the Revolution peaks.
(June-July) Lives in Rome.
(July) Returns to Rieti after the Revolution fails.
(September) Visits the Browinings in Florence.
(November) Moves with Ossoli and son to Florence.
(Winter or Spring 1850) Marries Ossoli.
1850 (February 13) Publishes her last dispatch in the New-York Daily Tribune.
(May 17) Sails with family on the Elizabeth  for New York.
(July 19) Elizabeth is grounded on a sandbar. Fuller dies with husband and son only a few hundred yards from Fire Island.
1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli published. Compiled and edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke.
1855 Arthur B. Fuller edits and publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties of Woman Includes articles, extracts of letters, and an edited version of Woman in the Nineteenth Century 
1856 Arthur B. Fuller publishes his edited compilation of Margaret Fuller's work, At Home and Abroad, or Thoughts and Things in American and Europe.  Includes his edited version of Summer on the Lakes.  See his Preface for an explanation of his editorial stance.
1859 Death of Margarett Crane Fuller, Margaret Fuller's mother.
Death of Eugene Fuller, by drowning.
1860 Arthur B. Fuller publishes his edition of Margaret Fuller's, Life Without and Life Within; or Reviews, Narratives, Essays and Poems.
1861 Summer on the Lakes. With Autobiography published.
1862 Arthur Fuller dies in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1895 Caroline W. Healey publishes Margaret and Her Friends; or Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller Upon the Mythology of the Greeks and Its Expression in Art Held at the House of the Rev. George Ripley… Beginning March 1, 1841. 
1903 Love Letters of Margaret Fuller 1845-1846  published.


Information for this chronology was compiled from resources in Joel Myerson's Margaret Fuller: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography (New York: Burt Franklin & Co., 1977); Mary Kelley's The Portable Margaret Fuller (Penguin Books, 1994); Susan Belasco Smith's introduction to Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (Prairie State Books, 1991); Jeffrey Steele's, The Essential Margaret Fuller.  (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992); Arthur W. Brown's Margaret Fuller  (New York: Twayne Pub., Inc., 1964); C. Hugh Holman and William Harmon's A Handbook to Literature, Sixth Edition (NY: Macmillan, London: Collier Macmillan, 1992).


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