FULLER., SARAH MARGARET, Marchioness OSSOLI, one of the most remarkable ' women of the time, was b. at Cambridgeport, Mass., May 23, 1810. Her father, Tim othy Fuller, was an advocate, and gave his daughter an excellent education, and nur- tured her with great care. At eight years of age she wrote Latin verses; and philosophy, ' history, and aesthetics were her favorite studies. At ten she red Tasso and Ariosto in the original, and subsequently made herself familiar with the German writers, Tieck, Schelling, and Novalis. After her father's death she assisted her family by private teaching, and in 1839 she founded a society for ladies, where she herself delivered lec- • tures. From 1839-44, she 'edited The Dial, to which she contributed many admirable articles. In compliance with an invitation she received from Horace Greeley, the editor of the Tribune, she proceeded to New York in 1844, and contributed to that journal a series of articles on literature and art, which have• since appeared in a collected form under the title of Papers on Literature and Art (London, 1846). In 1850, she published Wonsan in the Ninteenth Century, in which she very ably discusses the nature and destiny of woman, and claims for the sex rights which have been long denied it. In 1846, she
proceeded to England, where she made the acquaintance of Carlyle, for whom she had long entertained a high esteem. At Paris she gained the friendship of Mme. Dude vant, better known by her pseudonym of George Sand. Proceeding next to Rome, she there came in contact with the marquis d'Ossoli, to whom she was afterwards married in Dec., 1847. She took an active share in the political questions that , agitated those times. In 1849, during the siege of Rome, she took the charge of an hospital; and viewed with feelings of pain the downfall of the new and ephemeral Roman republic. In 1850, she set out on her return journey to America, accompanied by her husband and newly born infant; but just as they came within sight of New York, on July 16, a hurricane burst upon the devoted ship which carried them, and the three perished in , the waves. Her memoirs were published by Emerson and Channing under the title of Memoirs of Margaret Fuller, .3farchesa Ossoli (London, 1852).