Margaret Fuller

American journalist, critic, and women's-rights advocate (1810–1850), a leading Transcendentalist, editor of The Dial, and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century — and Buckminster Fuller's great-aunt.

Margaret Fuller was among the most formidable American intellectuals of her generation, moving in Emerson's circle before becoming a pioneering foreign correspondent; she died in a shipwreck off Fire Island in 1850.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: family (great-aunt). As a forebear of R. Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Fuller supplied both a family model of fierce intellectual independence and a specific inherited image: the "fountain of life" motif that scholars (e.g. Joachim Krausse in We Are All Astronauts) trace from Margaret Fuller-Ossoli into Fuller's recurring design metaphor of environment-controlling structures. She is the ancestral Transcendentalist echo in Fuller's self-understanding.

See Also

• Anne Hewlett Fuller (Anne Hewlett Fuller) — Fuller's wife, another family figure in his story

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work anchors this figure.