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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

This book provides an in-depth look at the life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, exploring her role as a journalist, critic, and intellectual during the 19th century. It delves into her personal and professional relationships, her contributions to the women's rights movement, and her influential work in the realm of literature. more

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Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller, born on May 23, 1810, was an influential American journalist and feminist. She made significant contributions to literature, philosophy, and social reform, and is considered a key figure of the American Renaissance. more

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“The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.”

“I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.”