Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 - July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, editor, and critic. She was also an advocate of women's rights, women's education and the right to employment. She encouraged many other reforms in society, including prison reform and the emancipation of slaves. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune in 1844. Her seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845. A year later, she was sent to Europe for the Tribune as its first female correspondent. No artist credited, 1840-1880.