MF
drowned in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, within sight of land, as she sailed with her husband
and child from Italy to the United States.
qtd. in
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
334
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Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 22, 15 Nov. 2007, pp. 16-18.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Fuller
It was during her first stay in Rome, in April 1847, that MF
first met the Marchese Giovanni Angelo Ossoli
, a supporter of Mazzini and an officer in the Roman Civic Guard. (He...
names
Margaret Fuller
BirthName: Sarah Margaret Fuller
Married: Ossoli
Titled: Marchesa d'Ossoli
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The question of whether MF
legally married the Marchese Giovanni Angelo Ossoli
, with whom she had a son
, remains debatable. Certainly, her respectable social...