ce with
Mr. Emerson 32

CHAPTER IV.

Art Studies.--Removal to Groton.--Meeting with Harriet Martineau.--Death
of Mr. Fuller.--Devotion to her Family 44

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 pictures 61

CHAPTER VI.

William Henry Channing's portrait of Margaret.--Transcendental
Days.--Brook Farm.--Margaret's visits there 84

CHAPTER VII.

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.--Beranger.--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 agita