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LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLL, 21
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no Yet t to ' I be bate compared not a jot with of "heart those , ' over thoug which , much many . ' of strong hope . souls ' My have triumphed are . Shall I then despair ? If I do , I am not a strong soul with . ' the teful
sideration '' Margaret _dxie ' s to famil her love y trea , and ted her urgentl , in thi y besoug s exigency ht her , to take gra the necessary
conforsake means , and them fulfil , preferring her father ra ' ther plan to . abandon But she her could long not -cherished make up her literary mind de to - siHer truggles and her triumph thus in her letters : —
gns . s appear Cambrid " 'January and 301 love _A , 1836 her . — more I was than a great ever deal She with is Miss to stay Martineau till August , while and in
shall go to Eng be wi land , thher with while Mr . in and London Mrs . F and arrar see . . tlie If I best should literary accompany society . them , If I I
E should go , you know , will no be t how with I mo fear ther , and the tremble while , will to come not to you a decision ?* Oh , . dear M y
few temporal thousand , you all seems dollars hang would ing make upon all it , and so the so prospect safe . As is most it is alluring I cannot . tell A easy
wha God t ceaselessl is coming to that us , I for the decide estate wisel will not . ' be , settled when I go , . I pray to y may y
"' hear Apr . t il by _11 th violent f 1836 . — effor If I t am from not to its go present with you objects I shall and be n obli atural ged desires to tear .
t But xny hroug I h shall the , ren feel a t . the Probabl necessity y , , I , shall and will not even do it think if the it best life-blood to correspond follows Meanwhilelet be friend
indeed with you . '" at all while you are in Europe . , us s
In the auiumn of 1836 Margaret went to Boston with , tlie twofold design of teaching * Latin and French at Mrs . Allcott ' s school ,
and with a view to forin classes for young ladies in French , German , and Italian . In one class she taught the German language , and
thought it _g-ood success , when at the end of three months they could read With twent more y pages advanced of German pup at ils a she lesson read . in twenty-four weeks ,
Schiller ' s ' Don Carlos , ' ' Artists , ' and ' Song of the Bell , ' besides and giving Dorothea a sort ' of ' Goetz general von lecture Berlichingen on Schiller ' ' ; I Goethe higenia ' s ' ' first Hermann part
the of Galeotte ' first Faust volume ; ' , ' part and , of ' of Clavi Richter Tieck go ; ' s ' ' s Lessing ' ' Phantasus Titan . ' ' s ' A Nathan , ' and _, , nearl p ' wide ' Muma y the , , ' whole ' for Emilia onl ot pretty range y
a governess With the ! Italian class she read ' Tasso' ' Petrarch' ' Ariosto , '
' Alfieri' and the whole hundred cantos of the , ' Divina Commedia , , ' with the _, aid of the Rue _Athenaeum copy , Flaxman's designs , and all
the best commentaries . Besides all this , Margaret had at this time three pupils , one
Eng and being lish that a history blind boy day and , for to Shakespeare ten whom weeks she ' s In gave historical addition an oral plays to lesson the in labors connection in Latin just , ,
man enumera authors ted every , she into was Eng also lish translating for the . gratification , one evening of every Dr . week Channing , Ger- ,
* Her eldest brother . _ _,
Life Of Margaret Fuller Ossoll, 21
LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLL , 21
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/21/
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