An Extraordinary Celebration for an Extraordinary Woman!

The Margaret Fuller Bicentennial has been an incredible opportunity to celebrate and learn about an extraordinary woman and continue her global vision of equality and human rights. The major events of the Bicentennial are now over, but the resources developed during the Bicentennial will remain available through this website, courtesy of Unitarian Universalist Women and Religion.

• LEARNING ACTIVITIES to download and use with your group
• TRAVELING DISPLAY—“Why Margaret Fuller Matters” available for display at your location
• TRAVELING DISPLAY TEXT AND PICTURES—available on this website.
• VIDEOS  see videos on our YouTube channel of the CONVERSATIONS SERIES and other programs
• MARGARET FULLER IN NEW ENGLAND TRAIL GUIDE— buy copies online
• WORSHIP MATERIALS to help you create your own Margaret Fuller Sunday service or program
• AWARD WINNING SERMON --“A Conversation with Margaret Fuller”—by the Rev. Katie Lee Crane. The sermon contest was co-sponsored with the UU Historical Society.
• RESOURCE MATERIALS on this site. 

The goal of the Bicentennial has been to raise awareness of Margaret Fuller, so that her story may inspire people of all ages to follow her lead and think independently, express their thoughts clearly, defend their convictions with courage, learn through dialogue and the free exchange of opinions, believe in the equality of all people, and be open to change. Then her legacy will be assured.

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

Author, editor, journalist, literary critic, educator, Transcendentalist, and women’s rights advocate....

Today we consider Margaret Fuller one of the guiding lights of the first-wave of feminism. She helped  educate the women of her day by leading a series of Conversations in which women were empowered to read, think and discuss important issues of the day. She empowered generations to follow through her ground-breaking writings, especially her landmark book Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

Among her accomplishments:

• First American to write a book about equality for women
• First editor of The Dial, foremost Transcendentalist journal, appointed by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• First woman to enter Harvard Library to pursue research
• First woman journalist on Horace Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune
• First woman literary critic who also set literary standards
• First woman foreign correspondent and war correspondent to serve under combat conditions

Many Thanks to the Bicentennial Committee

The Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Committee was a grassroots group of Unitarian Universalists , scholars, and representatives from historical sites, commissions, and organizations.  Together they planned tours, exhibits, trips, programs and performances intended to celebrate the life and legacy of Margaret Fuller during the bicentennial year of her birth, and beyond.

Funding was provided by the Fund for Unitarian Universalism, Mass Humanities, the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society, and individual donations. Unitarian Universalist Women & Religion served as the fiscal agent and is continuing to host the website. To learn more about this organization, please visit www.uuwr.org.

We welcome the suggestion and submission of possible resources to be added to the site. Donations continue to be accepted to maintain the website and resources.