# Margaret Fuller (Howe 1883)

Eminent Women Series
EDITED BY JOHN H. INGRAM
MARGARET FULLER
MARGARET FULLER
(MARCHESSA OSSOLI).
BY
JULIA WARD HOWE
LONDON: W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.
1888.
LONDON: PRINTED BY W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE. S.W.
PREFATORY NOTE.
The present volume bears the name of Margaret Fuller simply, because it is by this name that its subject is most widely known and best remembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage; but later style and title were borne by our friend for a short period only, and in a country remote from her own. It was as Margaret Fuller that she took her place among the leading spirits of her time, and made her brave crusade against its unworthier features. The record of her brief days of wifehood and of motherhood is tenderly cherished by her friends, but the story of her life-work is best inscribed with the name which was hers by birth and baptism, the name which, in her keeping, acquired a significance not to be lost nor altered.
CONTENTS.
* CHAPTER I.
* Childhood and Early Youth.—School Days................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 1
* CHAPTER II.
* Life in Cambridge.—Friendship of Dr. Hedge.—James Freeman Clarke................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 15
* CHAPTER III.
* Religious Beliefs.—Margaret's early Critics.—First Acquaintance with Mr. Emerson................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 25
* CHAPTER IV.
* Art Studies.—Removal to Groton.—Meeting with Harriot Martineau.—Death of Mr. Fuller.—Devotion to her Family................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 35
* CHAPTER V.
* Winter in Boston.—A Season of severe Labour.—Connection with Greene Street School, Providence, R.I.—Editorship of the Dial.—Margaret's Estimate of Allston’s Pictures................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 48
* CHAPTER VI.
* William Henry Channing's Portrait of Margaret.—Transcendental Days.—Brook Farm.—Margaret's Visits there................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 66
* CHAPTER VII.
* Margaret's Love of Children.—Visit to Concord after the Death of Waldo Emerson.—Conversations in Boston.—Summer on the Lakes................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 78
* CHAPTER VIII.
* Farewell to Boston.—Engagement to write for the New York Tribune.—Margaret in her New Surroundings.—Mr. Greeley's Opinion of Margaret's Work.—Her Estimate of George Sand................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 100
* CHAPTER IX.
* Margaret's Residence at the Greeley Mansion.—Appearance in New York Society.—Visits to Women imprisoned at Sing Sing and on Blackwell's Island.—Letters to her Brothers.—Woman in the Nineteenth Century.—Essay on American Literature.—View of Contemporary Authors................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 110
* CHAPTER X.
* Ocean Voyage.—Arrival at Liverpool.—The Lake Country.—Wordsworth.—Miss Martineau.—Edinburgh.—De Quincey.—Mary Queen of Scots.—Night on Ben Lomond.—James Martineau.—William J. Fox.—London.—Joanna Baillie.—Mazzini—Thomas Carlyle.—Margaret's Impressions of him.—His Estimate of her................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 133
* CHAPTER XI
* Paris.—Margaret's Reception there.—George Sand.—Chopin.—Rachel.—Lamennais.—Béranger.—Chamber of Deputies.—Berryer.—Ball at the Tuileries.—Italian Opera.—Alexandre Vattemaro.—Schools and Reformatories.—Journey to Marseilles.—Genoa.—Leghorn.—Naples.—Rome................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 148
* CHAPTER XII.
* Margaret's First Days in Rome.—Antiquities—Visits to Studios and Galleries—Her Opinions concerning the Old Masters.—Her Sympathy with the People.—Pope Pius.—Celebration of the Birthday of Rome.—Perugia.—Bologna.—Ravenna.—Venice.—A State Ball.—On the Grand Canal.—Milan.—Mansoui.—The Italian Lakes.—Parma.—Second Visit to Florence.—Grand Festival................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 160
* CHAPTER XIII.
* Period of Agitation in Rome.—Margaret's Zeal for Italian Freedom.—Her Return to Rome.—Review of the Civic Guard.—Church Fasts and Feasts.—Pope Pius.—The Rainy Season.—Promise of Representative Government in Rome.—Celebration of this Event.—Mazzini's Letter to the Pope.—Beauty of the Spring.—Italy in Revolution.—Popular Excitements in Rome.—Pope Pius deserts the Cause of Freedom.—Margaret leaves Rome for Aquila................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 169
* CHAPTER XIV.
* Margaret's Marriage.—Character of the Marchese Ossoli.—Margaret's first meeting with him.—Reasons for not divulging the Marriage.—Aquila.—Rieti.—Birth of Angelo Eugene Ossoli.—Margaret's Return to Rome.—Her Anxiety about her Child.—Flight of Pope Pius.—The Constitutional Assembly.—The Roman Republic.—Attitude of France.—The Siege of Rome.—Mazzini.—Princess Belgiojoso.—Margaret's Care of the Hospitals................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 181
* CHAPTER XV.
* Siege of Rome.—Margaret's Care of the Sick and Wounded.—Anxiety about her Husband and Child.—Battle between the French and Italian Troops.—The Surrender.—Garibaldi's Departure.—Margaret joins her Husband at his Post.—Angelo's Illness.—Letters from Friends in America.—Perugia.—Winter in Florence.—Interior of Margaret's Abode.—Aspect of her Future.—Her Courage and Industry.—Ossoli's Affection for her.—William Henry Hurlbut's Reminiscences of them both.—Last Days in Florence.—Farewell Visit to the Duomo:—Margaret's Evenings at Home.—Horace Sumner.—Margaret as a Friend of the People................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 191
* CHAPTER XVI.
* Margaret turns her Face homeward.—Last Letter to her Mother.—The Barque "Elizabeth."—Presages and Omens.—Death of the Captain.—Angelo's Illness.—The Wreck.—The Long Struggle.—The End................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 207
* CHAPTER XVII
* Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................page 219
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