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22 "LIFE OE MARGARET EUIXER OSSOLT,
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f . their chief reading 1 _being ! De Wette and Herder , _^ Fortunately for Margaret 1837 , a princi , she received pal teacher a favorable in the Green offer Street to become School , in at the Providence spring of ,
the Rhode elder Island g the irls , w for course here four , fora hours this thousand offer a day she dollars , choosin immediatel a year g her , she own was hours ted to teach as and it promised arranging certain means ; of aiding her familBoys y and accep irls , alike
came under her rule , and she commenced the y . term "by giving g * to all the It classes at short this lectures period on that the she true contemp objects la of ted stud writing y . a life of
was and Goet she he , the left preparation heaps of manuscri for which pt not cost es , transcri her much pts , time and and studies stud y ,
that and l direction eisure to , but the lete w it ork nor was was never it finished till 1841 ; that she wanted her article health on that great man comp , which is said , to be by far her best paper , appeared
in the ' Dial . ' whic In h 1839 formed she the published basis of her the translation translation of Eckermann since published , a work in
London It is by a little Mr . Oxenford remarkable . that she never paid any attention to
natural Up to sciences this period , she the neither events botanised in Margaret , geolog ' s life ised , had nor been dissec few ted and . and
no write t of , she a ve took ry drama privat tic e classes nature . of pup She ils could at her converse own house and , teach and had t
or success ganised , devo a ting school four hours youn a g day ladies to it during at Pro two vidence years wit . h She grea had translated Eckermann ' s Conversations with Goethe' and . the letters
, of Gunderode and Bettina . About that time Margaret formed a friendshiwhich proved of
p , great accura importance te scholar and , with of Mr emi . George t Ripley of , conversa a man of tion charac with ter w , hom an
she ultimately became connected powers in literary labors : nor , did she less value subsequentl the learning of the first and importance wit of Theodore to her Parker for from , whose 1840 aid for was two
y , years was laneo n eve she each r v edited ery of pop its the ular readers * ; Dial the , magazine ' and a quarterl writers bein y valued j g too nal ecle , but which ctic a and small however miscel - - por
tion Margaret Rhine of and , it . treated the It Romaic was with discontinue ballads great and talent d after the Goethe four years and of John , but Beethoven in Stirling its pages , the
to-, poems , gether with several pieces of sentiment in a spirit which spared no labor
. of But herself in a and book when or journal circumstances she gave again a very compelled imperfect lier impression to choose
genius an emp , loyment as , well as that the should wishes pay of her money friends , she , by consulted opening her a class own
for the conversation first class met . on Twenty the 6 -five th of persons November responded , 1-839 , to at the Miss appeal Peabod , and y ' s
22 "Life Oe Margaret Euixer Ossolt,
22 "LIFE _OE MARGARET _EUIXER OSSOLT _,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/22/
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