Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)" by Julia Ward Howe is a biography written in the late 19th century. The book focuses on the life and legacy of Margaret Fuller, a renowned figure in American literature and early feminism, exploring her intellectual contributions and personal experiences. It examines her childhood, education, and the relationships she formed with prominent thinkers of her time, delving into her unique struggles as a woman in a male-dominated society. The opening of the biography introduces Margaret Fuller's early years, detailing her upbringing in a politically engaged family in Cambridgeport, near Boston. It highlights her father's ambitious educational aspirations for her, which led to her prodigious intellectual development at a young age, including studying Latin and literature. As she navigates her early schooling and relationships with her peers, we see the challenges she faced due to her precocious nature and vivid imagination. Despite moments of struggle with her identity and acceptance among her classmates, she emerges with a fervent passion for learning and personal growth, setting the stage for her impactful future in writing and activism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Credits:

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 67.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2010-05-24