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Margaret Fuller Bicentennial
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| Now that 2010 has drawn to a close, so has the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial. All last year we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of our Unitarian foremother, who came into this world on May 23, 1810.
We bid farewell to the year's celebration with some images from "Follow the
Footsteps of Margaret Fuller to Rome, Rieti, and Florence," a tour
planned for over two years by The Margaret Fuller 2010 Bicentennial
Celebration, initiated and directed by author, actress, and Margaret
Fuller scholar Laurie James of New York City.
UUWF will continue to celebrate the remarkable life and accomplishments of Margaret Fuller in the years ahead with a grants program named in her honor.
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Last October representatives of the The Margaret Fuller 2010 Bicentennial
Celebration presented the plaque shown above to the Hotel Roma in Florence, where
it is now mounted on a wall next to the main entry. The Hotel Roma was
selected as the plaque's site because it was where Fuller, Marchese
Giovanni Ossoli and their son lived following the Italian Revolution of
1848-49.
The plaque honors Margarer Fuller in both English and
Italian for her commitment to revolutionary activities as an American
war correspondent and director of the Roman Hospital Fatebenefratelli
during the Risorgimento.
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| Participants in the October 2010 tour of Italian sites associated with Margaret Fuller at the presentation of a plaque honoring Fuller at the Hotel Roma, Florence. First row, left to right: former UUWF board member Rena Kondo, Community Church of New York; Lynn James Gross, South Nassau UU Congregation, Freeport, NY; Back row: Virginia Brody, Community Church of New York; Cicely Sullivan, Atkinson Memorial Church in Oregon City, OR; Italian Fuller scholar Mario Banonni;2009 Margaret Fuller Grant recipient LaurieJames, Community Church of New York; Bonny Levinsen, South Nassau UU Congregation, Freeport, New York.
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Who was Margaret Fuller?
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Born May 23, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Mass., a partial list of her accomplisments include:
• Becoming a published author while still in her early twenties
• Famously hosting "conversations" for women, which focused on fine arts, literature, history, nature and mythology ("minding" as opposed to "mending," to paraphrase Fuller)
• Serving as the first editor of the trancendentalist journal, The Dial
• Writing the first major feminist work in the United States: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• Becoming the first full-time book reviewer in journalism and the first woman newpaper editor
• Covering England and Italy - then in a state of war - as the New York Tribune's first female foreign correspondent
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