hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Margaret Fuller 481 1 Browse Search
Ralph Waldo Emerson 190 2 Browse Search
A. Bronson Alcott 90 2 Browse Search
J. W. Von Goethe 88 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley 67 1 Browse Search
Europe 62 0 Browse Search
Groton (Massachusetts, United States) 58 0 Browse Search
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) 57 3 Browse Search
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) 53 3 Browse Search
Thomas Carlyle 52 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Search the whole document.

Found 125 total hits in 42 results.

1 2 3 4 5
February 4th (search for this): chapter 17
tearfully around, and was afterwards buried among the sand-hills; to be at last disinterred and brought to Mount Auburn Cemetery by the relatives who had never seen him in life. Among the papers in the trunk was found one memorial which lies before me now, faded and wave-stained. It is a memorandum that was written long before by Margaret Ossoli, during one of her Italian intervals of separation from her child, and folded round a lock of her husband's hair. The paper is as follows:-- 4th February [1849?] I saw this morning a beautiful child beginning to walk. He had only eight months, yet is large, fair, rosy, has sixteen teeth. His mother has begun to give him food and wants to wet-nurse another child. Lives 55 via St. Basileo. He had already plenty of hair. How will Angelino seem when I go to him? Little could she have foreseen under what circumstances of deeper tragedy this mother's reverie would be read by strangers. As we read it, the final question expands to
July 19th, 1849 AD (search for this): chapter 17
fix the date of it in her memory, and this will probably remain forever unknown. Their child was born September 5, 1848; and the mother was compelled, in order to disarm suspicion and to earn money, to be alternately at Rieti and in Rome. Finally she was unable to leave Rome, because of the siege; and after returning to Rieti, she wrote this letter to Mr. Cass, in which she has made an evident effort to describe what is around her, and not to dwell on her own great anxieties. Rieti, 19th July, 1849. Dear Mr. Cass,--I seem to have arrived in a different world, since passing the mountains. This little red-brown nest, which those we call the aborigines of Italy made long before Rome was, lies tranquil amid the net-work of vineyards, its casinos and convents gleam pleasantly from the hillsides, the dirt accumulates undisturbed in its streets, and pigs and children wallow in it, while Madonna-veiled, bare-legged women twirl the distaff at every door and window, happy, if so they ca
1 2 3 4 5