Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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. PREFATORY NOTE. The present volume bears the name of MARGARET FULLER simply, because it is by this name that its subject is most widely known and best remembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage; but this later 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 she took her place among the leading spirits of her time, and made her brave crusade against its unworthier features. The record of her brief days of wifehood and of motherhood is tenderly cherished by her friends, but the story of her life-work is best inscribed with the name which was hers by birth and baptism, the name which, in her keeping, acquired a significance not to be lost nor altered. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. Childhood and Early Youth.--School-days 1 CHAPTER II. Life in Cambridge.--Friendship of Dr. Hedge and James Freeman Clarke 19 CHAPTER III. Religious Beliefs.--Margaret's Early Critics.--First Acquaintance with Mr. Emerson 32 CHAPTER IV. Art Studies.--Removal to Groton.--Meeting with Harriet Martineau.--Death of Mr. Fuller.--Devotion to her Family 44 CHAPTER V. Winter in Boston.--A Season of Severe Labor.--Connection with Green-Street School, Providence, R. I.--Editorship of the "Dial."--Margaret's estimate of Allston's pictures 61 CHAPTER VI. William Henry Channing's portrait of Margaret.--Transcendental Days.--Brook Farm.--Margaret's visits there 84 CHAPTER VII. Margaret's love of children.--Visit to Concord after the death of Waldo Emerson.--Conversations in Boston.--Summer on the Lakes 100 CHAPTER VIII. 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 128 CHAPTER IX.