Famous Women: Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli).
[Fuller, Margaret]. Howe, Julia Ward. Famous Women: Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.
8vo.; pages bright; 1883 gift inscription; green and white floral decorated endpapers; ochre cloth boards, elaborately stamped in black and gilt; covers lightly rubbed.
First edition of a biography of Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe, writer, lecturer, suffrage leader social reformer and author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” This volume was the fifth in Roberts’s “Famous Women” series—preceding volumes included biographies of George Eliot, Emily Brontë, George Sand, and Mary Lamb; slated future volumes in the series, as announced here by Roberts, included one on Maria Edgeworth, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, and Anne Bradstreet.
A lovely copy of an interesting and uncommon study of linking two of the biggest names in the women’s rights movement. The prefatory note includes an explanation of why Howe refers to Fuller by her maiden name: “It was as Margaret Fuller that she took her place among the leading spirits of her time...the record of her brief days of wifehood and of motherhood is tenderly cherished by her friends, but the story of her life-work is best inscribed with the name which was hers by birth and baptism...”
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