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Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

by Julia Ward HOWE (1819 - 1910)

Margaret's Marriage - Character of the Marchese Ossoli - Margaret's First Meeting with Him - Reasons for Not Divulging the Marriage - Aquila - Rieti - Birth of Angelo Eugene Ossoli - Margaret's Return to Rome - Her Anxiety About Her Child - Flight of Pope Pius - The Constitutional Assembly - The Roman Republic - Attitude of France - The Siege of Rome - Mazzini - Princess Belgiojoso - Margaret's Care of the Hospitals

A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one of America's first prominent feminists. The author is Julia Ward Howe, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," as well as numerous other works of prose and poetry, and a leader of the suffragist movement. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

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Listen next episodes of Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli):
Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains , Margaret Turns Her Face Homeward - Last Letter to Her Mother - The Barque "Elizabeth" - Presages and Omens - Death of the Captain - Angelo's Illness - The Wreck - The Long Struggle - The End - Final Estimate of Margaret's Character , Siege of Rome- Margaret's Care of the Sick and Wounded - Anxiety About Her Husband and Child - Battle Between the French and Italian Troops - The Surrender - Garibaldi's Departure - Margaret Joins Her Husband at His Post - Angelo's Illness - Letters from Friends in America - Perugia - Winter in Florence - Margaret's Domestic Life - Aspect of Her Future - Her Courage and Industry - Ossoli's Affection for Her - William Henry Hurlbut's Reminiscences of Them Both - Last Days in Florence - Farewell Visit to the Duomo - Margaret's Evenings at Home- Horace Sumner - Margaret as a Friend of the People