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Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

Name: Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
Author: Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Childhood and Early Youth - School Days (24:48)
Life in Cambridge - Friendship of Dr. Hedge and James Freeman Clarke (17:52)
Religious Beliefs - Margaret's Early Critics - First Acquaintance with Mr. Emerson (18:40)
Art Studies - Removal to Groton - Meeting with Harriet Martineau - Death of Mr. Fuller - Devotion to Her Family (25:30)
Winter in Boston - A Season of Severe Labor - Connection with the Green Street School, Providence, R.I. - Editorship of the "Dial" - Margaret's Estimate of Allston's Pictures (34:59)
William Henry Channing's Portrait of Margaret - Transcendental Days - Brook Farm - Margaret's Visits There (22:52)
Margaret's Love of Children - Visit to Concord After the Death of Waldo Emerson - Conversations in Boston - Summer on the Lakes (41:48)
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 (17:34)
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 (44:22)
Ocean Voyage - Arrival at Liverpool - The Lake Country - Wordsworth - Miss Martineau - Edinburgh - DeQuincey - 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 (28:41)
Paris - Margaret's Reception There - George Sand - Chopin - Rachel - Lamenais - Beranger - Chamber of Deputies - Berryer - Ball at the Tuilleries - Italian Opera - Alexandre Vattemare - Schools and Reformatories - Journey to Marseilles - Genoa - Leghorn - Naples - Rome (24:18)
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 Italaian Lakes - Parma - Second Visit to Florence - Grand Festival (16:44)
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 (23:47)
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 (18:31)
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 (29:10)
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 - Final Estimate of Margaret's Character (21:47)
Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains (20:46)