Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

Margaret's love of children.--Visit to Concord after the death of Waldo Emerson.--Conversations in Boston.--Summer on the Lakes 100

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 128

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 140

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 170

CHAPTER XI.

Paris.--Margaret's reception there.--George Sand.--Chopin.--Rachel.--Lamennais.--Béranger.--Chamber of Deputies.--Berryer.--Ball at the Tuileries.--Italian Opera.--Alexandre Vattemare.--Schools and Reformatories.--Journey to Marseilles.--Genoa.--Leghorn.--Naples.--Rome. 189

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.--Manzoni.--The Italian Lakes.--Parma.--Second visit to Florence.--Grand Festival 205

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 219

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 232

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.--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 245

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 265

CHAPTER XVII.

Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains 280

INDEX 293

FOOTNOTES

MARGARET FULLER.

CHAPTER I.

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH.--SCHOOL DAYS.

The subject of the following sketch, Sarah Margaret Fuller, has already been most fortunate in her biographers. Cut off herself in the prime of life, she left behind her devoted friends who were still in their full vigor of thought and sentiment. Three of these, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Henry Channing, set their hand, some thirty or more years ago, to the happy task of preserving for posterity their strong personal impressions of her character and influence. With these precious reminiscences were interwoven such extracts from her correspondence and diary as were deemed fittest to supply the outline of her own life and experience.