Margaret Fuller (64 page)

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   “prodigy of talent”: WHC, quoted in
CFI,
p. 60.

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   “wonderful child”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, quoted in
MMM,
p. 47.

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   “had not religion”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, quoted in
CFI,
p. 60.

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   “I get the card”:
FLI,
p. 98.

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   “defies the god”: Quoted in
MMM,
pp. 41–42.

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   “the dashing misses”: Frederic Henry Hedge, quoted in
CFI,
p. 61.

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   “a sad feeling”: WHC, quoted in
CFI,
p. 60.

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   “with indiscriminate”: Frederic Henry Hedge, quoted in
CFI,
p. 61.

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   “rhapsodical intimations”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 58.

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   “this hopeful”: MCF, quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “manners and disposition”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 69.

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   “address” . . . “that he never”:
FLI,
p. 121.

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   “he had never”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 62.

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   “exceedingly agreeable”:
FLI,
p. 127.

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   “
well over
”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 64.

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   “notoriously unpopular”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “nobility of blood”:
FLI,
p. 89.

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   “my natural”:
FLI,
p. 332.

4. MARIANA

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   red “flush”: MF journal c. March 1834 FMW, quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “eruption” on Margaret’s face: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “mortified to see”: MF journal c. March 1834 FMW, quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   need for “instruction”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 73.

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   “an odd and unpleasing”:
FLVI,
p. 59.

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   “much taller”:
FLIV,
p. 137.

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   “too independent”: MCF, quoted in
CFI,
p. 66.

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   “wounded” vanity: MF journal c. March 1834 FMW, quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “for I should grieve”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 71.

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   having been “disappointed”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 64.

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   “cheapen her value”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 66.

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   “She certainly”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “I hope you will”:
FLI,
p. 132.

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   “not see you”:
FLI,
p. 135.

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   “judicious country”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 74.

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   “a fair opportunity”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 75.

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   “Orthography, Reading”: Reprinted in Samuel Abbott Green,
Groton Historical Series,
vol. 3, no. 9 (Groton, Mass.: 1893), p. 405; quoted in
CFI,
p. 71.

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   “I feel myself”:
FLI,
p. 139.

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   “I did not intend”:
FLI,
p. 139.

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   “those who had”:
OMI,
p. 52.

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   “been unfortunately”: The story of Mariana,
SOL,
pp. 51–58. Margaret may have borrowed the name and some personality traits from Goethe’s headstrong and histrionic Mariana of
Wilhelm Meister,
a character who, as Margaret once wrote in her journal, liked to “range the orchards as a freebooter, & sit in the boughs of the withered apple tree like Charles 2d in the royal oak.” Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, eds., “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,”
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
vol. 102, 1990, p. 61.

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   “those sad experiences”:
FLI,
p. 160.

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   “I feel the power”:
FLI,
p. 151.

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   “I am determined”:
FLI,
p. 152.

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   “a gladiatorial”:
FLI,
p. 155.

5. THE YOUNG LADY’S FRIENDS

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   “I expect”:
FLI,
p. 150.

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   “translate[d]” through her reading:
FLI,
p. 153.

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   “so slow”:
FLIII,
p. 105.

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   “one of the most”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), p. 27.

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   “a young girl”: Ibid., p. 29.

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   “feudal hall”:
FLI,
p. 153.

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   “There is a constant”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Maria Chase, May 1821, Peabody Family Papers, Smith.

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   “born leader”: Anna Parsons, quoted in
CFI,
p. 94.

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   “How did she glorify”:
OMI,
p. 78.

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   “sarcastic, supercilious”: Kate Sanborn, quoted in Joel Myerson,
Fuller in Her Own Time
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008), p. xxiii.

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   disdain for “mediocrity”:
OMI,
p. 64.

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   “know as much”:
Margaret Fuller Ossoli,
p. 25.

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   “Each was”:
OMI,
pp. 103–4.

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   “never rested”:
OMI,
p. 104.

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   “be capable”:
OMI,
p. 78.

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   “should not”:
OMI,
p. 64.

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   “marked the very dawn”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, quoted in Deborah Pickman Clifford,
Crusader for Freedom: A Life of Lydia Maria Child
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), p. 41.

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   “restless insatiable”: Ibid., p. 50.

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   “harmless arrow”: Ibid., p. 53.

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   “possessed a large”: Ibid., p. 57.

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   “honest independence”: Ibid., p. 50.

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   “a natural person”:
FLI,
p. 154.

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   “accidental advantages”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 95.

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   “brilliant” de Staël:
FLI,
p. 154.

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   “like a butterfly”:
Crusader for Freedom,
p. 54.

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   “a poor isolated”: Ibid., p. 53.

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   “was the beginning”: George Curtis, quoted in
Crusader for Freedom,
p. 70.

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   less “careful”: Mrs. John [Eliza Rotch] Farrar,
Recollections of Seventy Years
(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), p. 171.

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   “an American freedom”: Charles Eliot Norton, “Reminiscences of Old Cambridge,”
Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society,
vol. 1, 1905, p. 17. See also Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, “Two Early Harvard Wives: Eliza Farrar and Eliza Follen,”
New England Quarterly,
vol. 38, no. 2, June 1965, pp. 147–67.

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   “elected” mother: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 97.

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   “mould her”:
Margaret Fuller Ossoli,
p. 36.

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   “the most intolerable”: Harriet Martineau, quoted in
Fuller in Her Own Time,
p. xxiii.

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   become a “gentlewoman”: [Eliza Ware Rotch Farrar],
The Young Lady’s Friend
(Boston: American Stationers’ Company, John B. Russell, 1837), p. 318.

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   “In no country”: Ibid., p. 319.

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   “dragged round”: Ibid., pp. 112–14.

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   “who attend”: Ibid., p. 318.

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   “run, jump”: Ibid., p. 325.

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   “one of the highest”: Ibid., pp. 385–86.

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   “the precious”: Ibid., pp. 2–3.

6. ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

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   the “brutal” Constantine:
FLI,
p. 152.

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   “My whole being”:
FLI,
p. 164.

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   “anxious suspense”:
FLI,
p. 153.

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   “powerful eye” . . . “imposing maniere”:
FLII,
p. 154.

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   “inclined to idealize”:
FLIII,
p. 156.

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   “truly myself”:
FLVI,
p. 234.

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   “like a plaything”: John Wesley Thomas, ed.,
The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller
(Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 97.

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   “Her mind”:
WNC,
p. 29.

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   “intellectual abandon”: JFC, quoted in
CFI,
p. 102.

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   “pull people”: Sarah Clarke, quoted in
CFI,
p. 103.

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   “gladiatorial disposition”:
FLI,
p. 155.

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   “contempt for”:
OMI,
p. 104.

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   “aching wish”:
FLI,
p. 155.

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   “communicate more”:
FLVI,
p. 272.

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   “so open” . . . “intimacy”:
FLVI,
p. 234.

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   souls to be “conjugal”:
FLVI,
p. 134.

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   “brilliant vivacity”:
FLVI,
pp. 160, 159.

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   “I have determined”:
FLI,
pp. 158–59.

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   “When disappointed”:
FLI,
p. 159.

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   whose “pride”:
FLI,
p. 158.

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   declared himself “satisfied”:
FLVI,
pp. 161–62.

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   “Ah weakness”:
SOL,
pp. 59, 58.

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   “insincerity and heartlessness”:
FLVI,
p. 102.

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   “Thoughts he had”:
SOL,
pp. 59–60.

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   If “separation” was possible:
FLI,
p. 347.

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   “given” to her:
FLIII,
p. 197.

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   “my child”:
FLII,
p. 187.

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   “while night”:
FLII,
p. 187.

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   “thirty-seven degrees”:
FLI,
p. 161.

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   “answering store”:
FLI,
pp. 162–63.

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   “pleasure . . . of finding”:
FLVI,
p. 134.

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   “It seems”:
FLI,
p. 177.

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   “extraordinary, generous”:
OMI,
pp. 59, 64.

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Elective Affinities:
FLI,
p. 174.

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   “E.” should “suffice”:
FLVI,
p. 166.

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   “loved and loving”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 17.

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   “the Elizabeth affair”:
FLVI,
p. 166.

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   “What you have felt”:
FLVI,
p. 172.

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   “fair Elschen”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 9.

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   “I looked upon”:
FLVI,
p. 179.

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   “cross mouth”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 106.

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   “bitter months”:
FLI,
p. 347.

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   “my nerves”: MF journal, quoted in
CFI,
p. 112.

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   “entering “prison”:
OMI,
p. 135.

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   “a great burden”:
FLI,
p. 347.

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   “the only person”:
FLI,
p. 174.

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   “there is no”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 112.

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   “more sweet”:
FLI,
p. 170.

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   “divinest love”:
FLII,
p. 93.

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   “the same love”: MF journal, quoted in
CFI,
p. 281.

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   “how she idolizes”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 112.

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   “I loved Anna”: MF journal, quoted in
CFI,
p. 281.

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   “sympathies most wide”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 117.

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   “consciousness” of her abilities: Quoted in
VM,
p. 45.

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   “what is the effect”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 117.

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   “men never”:
WNC,
p. 30. The quotation begins “But early I perceived that men never . . .”

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   “full of self”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 116.

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   “her kind”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 118.

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   “you are destined”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 35.

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   “should think me fit”:
FLVI,
p. 195.

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   “I felt as I have so often”:
FLVI,
p. 250.

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   “She has nothing”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 117.

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   “sphere of duty”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 118.

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   “from a very”:
FLVI,
p. 134.

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   “more extended”:
FLI,
p. 347.