Margaret Fuller was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate born on May 23, 1810. She is best known for her work "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which is considered one of the first major feminist texts in the United States. Fuller was a prominent figure in the Transcendentalist movement and was associated with notable thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In addition to her literary contributions, Fuller was the first editor of The Dial, a transcendentalist magazine. She also worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe, where she reported on the Italian unification movement. Fuller died in a shipwreck in 1850, leaving behind a legacy of advocacy for social reform and gender equality.