From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she...
politics
Harriet Hamilton King
Her reading of Farini
initiated her enthusiasm for Italian nationalism and her passionate devotion to Mazzini
. She wrote that all the history and all the poetry I read imbued and confirmed me in ideas...
