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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 12: books published. (search)
From the subject of Goethe followed naturally, in those days, that of Bettina Brentano, whose correspondence with the poet, translated in an attractive German-English by herself, had appeared in England in 1837, and had been reprinted at Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1841. Margaret Fuller, in the Dial in January, 1842, Dial, II. 313. had called attention to another work from the same source: the letters that had passed, at an earlier period than the Goethe correspondence, between Bettina and hbrother Arthur, the most popular of all her books. He has reprinted it, without alteration, in that volume of her writings called Art, literature, and the Drama, including the preface, which was thought to savor of vanity and became the theme of Lowell's satire; although the sentence he apparently had in view, I feel with satisfaction that I have done a good deal to extend the influence of Germany and Italy among my compatriots, was strictly true. It was in this volume that she published — b
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 13: business life in New York. (1844-1846.) (search)
, into a sea of troubles. She entered on her work at a time when the whole standard of literary criticism, not only in America but in England, needed mending. The tomahawk theory still prevailed among editors and even among authors; men revenged literary slights by personal abuse; the desire to make an example of a person or to get even with him had not then vanished from literature, as it has not yet disappeared from politics. Poe's miscellaneous writings were full of this sort of thing; Lowell's Fable for critics was not at all free from it. At such a time it was no easy thing for a woman to pass from a comparatively secluded life in Boston and her circle of personal friends in the Dial, to what then seemed the metropolitan life of New York and the hand-to-mouth existence of a daily newspaper. To the bad tendencies of the time her work furnished an excellent antidote. From some experiences of the daily journal she recoiled at first and perhaps always; the break-neck speed, the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Index. (search)
312; life at Jamaica Plain, 94; flower-pieces, 96; description of nature, 98; ryebread days, 104; conversations, 109; interest. in mythology, 114; relations with Miss Martineau, 128; women who took part in her conversations, 128; criticisms on contributors to Dial, 166 not a resident at Brook Farm, 178; books published, 187; Western journey, 193; removal to New York, 205; investigations of poverty and crime, 206, 211; religious feeling, 206; criticisms on Longfellow, 138, 204, 218, 293: on Lowell, 217, 296; departure for Europe, 220 ; her European notebook, 220; stay in London, 229; arrival in Rome, 230; the Italian revolution, 231; marriage and motherhood, 231, 253 : early feeling about them, 232; early attachment, 233; service in hospitals, 236; first meeting with Marquis Ossoli, 239; life at Rieti, 238, 250, 266; removal to Florence, 241, 245; correspondence with husband, 248, 279; description of child, 268, 270, 271; her book on Roman republic, 272, 282; voyage to America,