Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Higginson)

American Men of Letters.


EDITED BY


CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

American Men of Letters.



MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI.



BY

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.





BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1884.

Copyright, 1884,
By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.


All rights reserved.




The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

Page
I.  Introductory 1
II.  Hereditary Traits 7
III.  Girlhood at Cambridge 20
IV.  Country Life at Groton 43
V.  Finding a Friend 62
VI.  School-Teaching in Boston and Providence 75
VII.  Suburban Life at Jamaica Plain 94
VIII.  Conversations in Boston 109
IX.  A Literary Club and its Organ 130
X.  The Dial 154
XI.  Brook Farm 173
XII.  Books Published 187
XIII.  Business Life in New York 205
XIV.  European Travel 220
XV.  Marriage and Motherhood 232
XVI.  Letters between Husband and Wife 248
XVII.  Closing Scenes 266
XVIII.  Literary Traits 281
XIX.  Personal Traits 299

Bibliographical Appendix 315
Index 319

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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