Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Published: 2015-07-04
Total Pages: 454
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Excerpt from Art, Literature, and the Drama The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, lately published, have inspired many readers with a profound regret that they had not, during her life, made or improved the acquaintance of one whom impartial judgment must pronounce the most capable and noteworthy American woman the world has yet known. Criticism has not spared the writers of that Memoir; yet no critic, so far as I am aware, has hinted a doubt that it portrays, truly and vividly, its heroine, though she had previously been more widely misapprehended - perhaps I should say uncomprehended - than any of her cotemporaries. Especially is that portion of the Memoirs contributed by Ralph Waldo Emerson entitled to the praise of being the frankest, fairest, most effective biography of our day, exhibiting its subject exactly as she lived and moved among us some few years ago, with her lofty virtues and her conspicuous faults, her conversation Which charmed and her manner that repelled; so that she Was at the same moment idolized and shunned, reverenced and ridiculed, by different sets of cultivated and considerate persons Whom she met in society; and neither without obvious reasons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.