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Title: Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

Author: Julia Ward Howe

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Famous Women.

MARGARET FULLER.

_The next volumes in the Famous Women Series will be:_

MARIA EDGEWORTH. By Miss Zimmern.

SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE. By Mrs. Birney.

ANNE BRADSTREET. By Helen Campbell.

_Already published:_

GEORGE ELIOT. By Miss Blind.

EMILY BRONTE. By Miss Robinson.

GEORGE SAND. By Miss Thomas.

MARY LAMB. By Mrs. Gilchrist.

MARGARET FULLER. By Julia Ward Howe.

MARGARET FULLER

(_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-days 1

CHAPTER II.

Life in Cambridge.--Friendship of Dr. Hedge and James Freeman Clarke 19

CHAPTER III.

Religious Beliefs.--Margaret's Early Critics.--First Acquaintan