Chapter I: Front Matter

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.--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

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