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16 X.IFE OE MARGARET FOIXEB OSSOLT*
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lived in America , and before she earae under the chastening , subduing influence of intercourse with European minds and European
_problems , is expressed in her letters and diaries with a depth of quiet conviction against which blame or remonstrance would
probably have been powerless in life , and which certainly must be accepted now , since it characterised one who was so rich in kind ,
good deeds , in mental faculties and in domestic virtues . We never find that the heroine of this tale was hard or selfish ;
her egotism was , after all , more verbal than anything else , since she was a good daughtera devoted friendand a fascinating
com-, , panion to little children . It would be well for all of us who may have more reticence and a keener perception of the ludicrous in
self-afnrmation if only our words condemned us ! With these few introductory words as to the character and social
value of one whom the world will not willingly forget , we proceed to ive an abridgment of her historyearnestly wishing that the
volumes g which contain it were republished , in . a cheaper and more accessible form .
The Marehesa Ossoli , better known by her maiden name of Margaret Fuller , one of the most original minds and most accomplished
female scholars America has yet produced , was born in Cambridge Port , Massachusetts , on the 23 rd of May , 1810 . Her father , a
_lawyer and a politician , was a man of sagacity and energy , devotedly attached to an excellent wifebut painfully anxious for the advance- ;
ment of his sons and daughters , , and more especially for the ad- \ vancement of Margaretwhoat six years of age , commenced , under \
his other superintendence tasksas , the and , stud as , y various of Latin as , the which hours was would soon followed allowand by \ i
, many , on subjects far beyond her tender age . Mrs . Fuller , whose health : ; was delicatewas absorbed in the care of her younger children , so |
Margaret ' s childhood , was spent in laborious study in a house | whereto use her pathetic languageneither dognor bird , nor any £
, , , graceful animated form of existence was ever seen . | Little wonder that such a course of training produced a premature I
the development victim of of eriodical the brain headaches , or that and , in later nervous years affections , the student of was f i every
p descri She ption . - soonwell acquainted with the best French writers I &
of the was last century very , the , Queen Anne authors , the English novelists , § with Shakespeare and Cervantesand though she acknowledged that f
, her kindness youth yet was not the unfriended introduction , since was those premature great minds and came much to of her life in : | _r
was devoured , in the _Tbud . In the little back garden , which joined her % father's house , whose miniature green plot was sadly _| marred in her
student ambitious 's happ eyes iest hy the hours presence were of passed a pump , the and great tool-house amount became , the of young stud habit y j | _v ,
exacted soon ceased to be a burden , and reading a f and a passion ; but , unfortunately , the force of _feeling which , under ; _J
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16 X.Ife Oe Margaret Foixeb Ossolt*
16 X _. IFE OE MARGARET FOIXEB _OSSOLT *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/16/
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