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She was then a wife and a mother, having been married privately to the Marquis Ossoli, a Roman, 'of a noble but impoverished house, whom she described, in a letter to her mother, as 'not in any respect such a person as people in general would expect to find with her, being a man 'absolutely ignorant of books, and with no enthusiasm of character, but endowed with excellent practical sense, a nice sense of duty, native refinement, and much sweetness of temper.
Browning's Letters continued Baths of Lucca Florence again Venice Margaret Fuller Ossoli Visit to England Winter in Paris Carlyle George Sand Alfred de Musset. On March 9, 1849, Mr. Browning's son was born. With the joy of his wife's deliverance from the dangers of such an event came also his first great sorrow. His mother did not live to receive the news of her grandchild's birth.
The posthumous impression of Margaret Fuller Ossoli has been colored by some who sneer at her ways and pretensions, because there was probably something in her manner which displeased them in a personal way. She had certainly a very awkward fashion of blinking her eyes, and also "a mountainous me."
We may judge, from "the style, the matter, and the drift" of this discourse, that it emanated from the same sculptor who is mentioned, in "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife," as having traduced Margaret Fuller and her husband Count Ossoli. As Tennyson says, "A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies," and this fellow would seem to have been an adept in unveracious exaggeration.
Then she went abroad, touched Rousseau's manuscripts at Paris with trembling, adoring fingers, made a secret marriage in Italy with the young Marquis Ossoli, and perished by shipwreck, with her husband and child, off Fire Island in 1850.
From motives of economy, they took passage in a merchantman from Leghorn, the Elizabeth, the expense being one-half what a return by way of France would have been. Ossoli, when a boy, had been told by a fortune-teller, to 'beware of the sea, and this was the first ship he had ever set his foot in.
VI. Napoleon; or, the Man of the World. VII. Goethe; or, the Writer. Contribution to the "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli." A new periodical publication was begun in Boston in 1847, under the name of the "Massachusetts Quarterly Review." The last line of this address is characteristic: "We rely on the truth for aid against ourselves."
Should she, who had had many admirers, now marry a man her junior, and not of surpassing intellect, like her own? If she married him, it must be kept a secret till his father's estate was settled, for marriage with a Protestant would spoil all prospect of an equitable division. Love conquered, and she married the young Marquis Ossoli in December, 1847.
One of the most devoted young mothers I ever knew the younger sister of Margaret Fuller Ossoli made it a rule, no matter how much her children absorbed her, to read books or newspapers for an hour every day; in order, she said, that she should be more to them than a mere source of physical nurture, and that her mind should be kept fresh and alive for them.
And so down to our own day, who knows how many mute, inglorious Minervas may have perished unenlightened, while Margaret Fuller Ossoli and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were being educated "like boys." This expression simply means that they had the most solid training which the times afforded.
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