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From Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Gamaliel Bradford, 1917
‘ It is doubtful whether the records of history show a woman who began life by declaring, to herself and others, a larger and more sweeping sense of her own power and importance. Her mighty and foursquare egotism teased the shy and self-distrustful Hawthorne till he had immortalized it in the Zenobia of the “Blithedale Romance.” It disconcerted the grave Emerson. It annoyed Lowell,—” a very foolish, conceited woman.” It amused Horace Greeley, who was not without his own fair share of the same quality. ’
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After a few months’ sojourn in Italy, she found . . . a temperament . . . in the Marquis Ossoli, whom she married secretly at the close of the year 1847. . . . Margaret’s husband was not literary or a scholar. . . . . But there is no doubt that he was a high-minded, dignified gentleman, and that he was devoted to her. . .
>Portraits of American Women by Gamaliel Bradford
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1917 (1919).
Wellisz, Léopold, 1882- Title The friendship of Margaret Fuller D'Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz. Imprint New York, Polish Book Importing Co., 1947. Descript 40 p. 23 cm. Note "First printed in vol. IV, 1945-1946, Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America." "Selected bibliography in English": p. 39-40. *ZZ-26984 Subject Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850. Micklewicz, Adam, 1798-1855.
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