Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-15


by Boston house. The Boston Mail remark,
that if the friends of that Indy had consulted the
well being OF her posthumous fame, they would
never have submitted such work to the nspec-
ton oil the public. Miss Fuller was the dauehte,
OF Timothy Fuller, of Massachusetts,, for .eyern
years member of Congress from that State. Af
ter the death of her father (says the writer) Miss
| Fuller was a school teacher and as such. Xvas
said to be very able and successful. It would
SEEM however, that she soon imbibed strange no.
tlons IN relation to society," and arrived at the con-
clusion that everything in this world was erro-
neously organized She was for kind of univer-
sal reform; and set her wits to work to insure q
new organization. Especially was she inclined
to establish 'Woman's Rights on solid basis.
| About the year 1914, she came to this civ
lsays the New York Attas,) and was engaged by
Mr. Horace Greedy as an assistant in the literary
department of his newspaper She wrote good
deal, and wrote well. Indeed, she was regarded
as woman of decided genius. She resided in
the family of Mr.. Greedy, though it does NOT an
pear that she was very intimate with that gentle
man. He says that he always treated her with
respect and kindness, though he often ouarreled
with her, because she would drink strong pota-
tons of tea and Coffee whilst he slaked his thirst
with pure cold water. Mr.. Greedy intimates that
she very often injured her nervous system bv
drinking her favorite liquids. According to Mr..
Greedy, Magaret not of the most amiable
temperament; was often captious and irritable,
and sometimes when he reproved her snubbed
| him.
| The memoirs of the Countess Ossoli develone q
queer set opinions the part of their heroine.
| Ii seems that she had an odd idea of the married
state, and regarded it institution that did not
impose any very rigid moral obligations or duties.
AS much as this we infer from her defence oftbe
protlgate Madame George Sand, who appears to
her the model OF female vestaI. In describing
an interview she had with that extraordinary
sensualst and ibertine, she thus defends her pro-
| figacy:-
Her way OF talking is just like her writing
lively, picturesque, with undertone of deep
feeling, and the same skill in striking the nail
on the head, every now and then, with blow.
We did not talk at all on personal or private
matters saw, as one sees in her writings, the
want OF an independent interior life, but did
not feel it as fault, there is so much in her of
her kind. heartily enjoyed the sense of so pro-
lic, so ardent a genius. liked the woman in
her, too, very much never liked woman bet
ter.
" For the rest, IIdosnot care to write about it
much, for cannot, in the room and time have to
spend, express my thoughts as l would but as
near as L can express the sum total, it is this ::
~ anu OlueTS VINO ADMIRE n6r, are ANXIOUS
. TO make fancy picture of her, and represent
her as an Helena in the {" Seven Chords of the
Lyre"-all whose mistakes the fault of the
, present state OF society. But to me the truth
seems to be this she has the purity in her soul,
lof she knows well how to love and prize its beau
ty; but she herself is iquite another sort of per-
, son. She needs nodefence, but only to be under
stood; she has bravely acted out her nature, and
always with good intentions. She might have
loved one man nermanantlv If che oo1,lJ l,,u.
found one contemporary with her who could in
terest and command her throughout her range
but there was hardly possibility of that for such
person. Thus she has naturally changed the
OBJECT OF her affections, and several times Also,
there may have been something of the Bachante
~ her ife and of the love of night and Storm and
hefree raptures amid which roamed on the moun-
taln-tops the followers of Cybele, the great god
dess, the great mother But she was never coarse,
never gross, and am sure her generous heart has
not tailed to draw some rich drops from every kind
OF w1ne-press. When she has done with an in
tlmacy, she likes to break it off suddenly, and this
has happened often, both with men and women.
Many calumnies upon her are traceable to this
cause.''
According to Madame Ossoli's account of her
sell, she picked up husband, at random, in Rome
without ceremony or introduction, and lived with
MIN ON her own terms and conditions. Indeed it
uoes not appear that she was married to him.
one found him in grove, near St. Peters, in
Rome, and adopted him. She says that it was to
endanger his welfare to marry her, he being
Catholic and she Protestant. If she married
MN at all In conformity with any law of civilized
lie, OF In accordance with the rules ofany church.
she has not far as we have read, afforded
any proof OF the fact. We do not believe that
the public morals or the literature of the coun-
try will be advanced by the memoirs of Madame
Ossoli.