MARGARET FULLER
Reading edition
(MARCHESA OSSOLI).
BY
JULIA WARD HOWE.
BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1883.
Copyright, 1883, By Roberts Brothers. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
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 this 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.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Childhood and Early Youth.—School-days1
CHAPTER II.
Life in Cambridge.—Friendship of Dr. Hedge and James Freeman Clarke19
CHAPTER III.
Religious Beliefs.—Margaret's Early Critics.—First Acquaintance with Mr. Emerson32
CHAPTER IV.
Art Studies.—Removal to Groton.—Meeting with Harriet Martineau.—Death of Mr. Fuller.—Devotion to her Family44
CHAPTER V.
Winter in Boston.—A Season of Severe Labor.—Connection with Green-Street School, Providence, R. I.—Editorship of the "Dial."—Margaret's estimate of Allston's pictures61
CHAPTER VI.
William Henry Channing's portrait of Margaret.—Transcendental Days.—Brook Farm.—Margaret's visits there84
CHAPTER VII.
Margaret's love of children.—Visit to Concord after the death of Waldo Emerson.—Conversations in Boston.—Summer on the Lakes100
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 Sand128
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 her170
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 Festival205
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 Aquila219
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 Hospitals232
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 people245
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 end265
CHAPTER XVII.
Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains280
INDEX293