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 Brontë. 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.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

The present volume bears the name of Margaret Fuller simply, because itis by this name that its subject is most widely known and bestremembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage; but thislater 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 shetook her place among the leading spirits of her time, and made her bravecrusade against its unworthier features. The record of her brief days ofwifehood and of motherhood is tenderly cherished by her friends, but thestory of her life-work is best inscribed with the [vi]name which was hersby birth and baptism, the name which, in her keeping, acquired asignificance not to be lost nor altered.[vii]

CONTENTS.