Margaret Fuller 
Woman in the Nineteenth Century 

Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in The Dial magazine as ‘The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women’, it was later expanded and republished in book form in 1845. Woman in the Nineteenth Century draws heavily on transcendentalism, as well as earlier feminist writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, to argue for women’s equality to men. The basis of Fuller’s argument is that mankind is being held back from spiritual enlightenment through its refusal to accept divine love.