Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

by Julia Ward Howe

17 chapters7h 12mEnglish1883

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A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one of America's first prominent feminists. The author is Julia Ward Howe, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," as well as numerous other works of prose and poetry, and a leader of the suffragist movement. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

Chapters (17)

1Childhood and Early Youth - School Days

1488

2Life in Cambridge - Friendship of Dr. Hedge and James Freeman Clarke

1072

3Religious Beliefs - Margaret's Early Critics - First Acquaintance with Mr. Emerson

1120

4Art Studies - Removal to Groton - Meeting with Harriet Martineau - Death of Mr. Fuller - Devotion to Her Family

1530

5Winter in Boston - A Season of Severe Labor - Connection with the Green Street School, Providence, R.I. - Editorship of the "Dial" - Margaret's Estimate of Allston's Pictures

2099

6William Henry Channing's Portrait of Margaret - Transcendental Days - Brook Farm - Margaret's Visits There

1372

7Margaret's Love of Children - Visit to Concord After the Death of Waldo Emerson - Conversations in Boston - Summer on the Lakes

2508

8Farewell 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

1054

9Margaret'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

2662

10Ocean Voyage - Arrival at Liverpool - The Lake Country - Wordsworth - Miss Martineau - Edinburgh - DeQuincey - 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

1721

11Paris - Margaret's Reception There - George Sand - Chopin - Rachel - Lamenais - Beranger - Chamber of Deputies - Berryer - Ball at the Tuilleries - Italian Opera - Alexandre Vattemare - Schools and Reformatories - Journey to Marseilles - Genoa - Leghorn - Naples - Rome

1458

12Margaret'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 - Manzoni - The Italaian Lakes - Parma - Second Visit to Florence - Grand Festival

1004

13Period 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

1427

14Margaret'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

1111

15Siege 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 - Margaret's Domestic Life - 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

1750

16Margaret 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 - Final Estimate of Margaret's Character

1307

17Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains

1246

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

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