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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 3 : Girlhood at Cambridge . (1810 -1833 .) (search)
Chapter 3: Girlhood at Cambridge. (1810-1833.)
Sarah Margaret, the oldest of the eight children of Timothy and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, was born May 23, 1810, in that part of Cambridge still known as Cambridgeport.
There are attractive situations in that suburb, but Cherry Street can scarcely be classed among them, and the tide of business and the pressure of a tenement-house population have closed in upon it since then.
The dwelling of Timothy Fuller still stands at the corner of Eaton o offer.
Intelliqency was nothing to it. A supercilious, satirical, affected, pedantic, Syren !!!! Can the olla podrida of human nature present a compound of more varied ingredients, or higher gusto?
Fuller Mss. i. 1.
At the beginning of 1833 she wrote as follows in her diary, looking forward to an uneventful year.
She was at this time living in what was then a picturesque old house, now shorn of part of its amplitude and of its superb row of great linden trees,--the Brattle House on
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 4 : country life at Groton . (1833 -1836 .) (search)
Chapter 4: country life at Groton. (1833-1836.)
In removing with her family to Groton, a village nearly forty miles from Boston, and then rather difficult of access,--for this was long before the building of the Fitchburg Railroad,--Margaret Fuller felt a natural depression.
If even the Boston of those days afforded but a limited supply of books and intellectual companionship, what would Groton offer?
She gave up Cambridge with its youthful society on one side, Boston with its books on the other; and this for a young woman of twenty-three, overflowing with energy and ambition, was quite a trial.
She saw in advance what it would be, and she found what she expected.
But her letters are enough to show that her mind was still actively employed; and that a life more wholly rural gave a new and strong development to her love of out-door nature.
She wrote to Dr. Hedge from Groton, July 4, 1833:--
I highly enjoy being surrounded with new and beautiful natural objects My eyes