Harriet Martineau: ‘Autobiography.’ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1877.
Her home at this time.
Margaret’s home at this time was in the mansion house formerly belonging to Judge Dana, a large, old-fashioned building, since taken down, standing about a quarter of a mile from the Cambridge Colleges, on the main road to Boston. The house stood back from the road, on rising ground which overlooked an extensive landscape. It was always a pleasure to Margaret to look at the outlines of the distant hills beyond the river, and to have before her this extent of horizon and sky. In the last year of her residence in Cambridge, her father moved to the old Brattle place, a still more ancient edifice, with large, old-fashioned garden and stately rows of linden trees. Here Margaret enjoyed the garden walks, which took the place of the extensive view.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke: ‘Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli.’
Mr. Channing’s first impression.
Margaret too intense.
Imperiousness.
Sentimentality.