American Men of Mind

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Burton Egbert Stevenson. American Men of Mind

American Men of Mind

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

"MEN OF MIND"

CHAPTER II

WRITERS OF PROSE

SUMMARY

CHAPTER III

WRITERS OF VERSE

SUMMARY

CHAPTER IV

PAINTERS

SUMMARY

CHAPTER V

SCULPTORS

SUMMARY

CHAPTER VI

THE STAGE

SUMMARY

CHAPTER VII

SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS

SUMMARY

CHAPTER VIII

PHILANTHROPISTS AND REFORMERS

SUMMARY

CHAPTER IX

MEN OF AFFAIRS

SUMMARY

CHAPTER X

INVENTORS

SUMMARY

INDEX

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Burton Egbert Stevenson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The most picturesque figure of the group was Margaret Fuller. Starting as a morbid and sentimental girl, her father's death seems suddenly to have changed her, at the age of twenty-five, into a talented and thoughtful woman. Her career need not be considered in detail here, since it was significant more from the inspiration she gave others than from any achievement of her own. She proved herself a sympathetic critic, if not a catholic and authoritative one, and a pleasing and suggestive essayist.

What she might have become no one can tell, for her life was cut short at the fortieth year. She had spent some years in Italy, in an epoch of revolutions, into which she entered heart and soul. A romantic marriage, in 1847, with the Marquis Ossoli, served further to identify her with the revolutionary cause, and when it tumbled into ruins, she and her husband escaped from Rome and started for America. Their ship encountered a terrific storm off Long Island, was driven ashore, broken to pieces by the waves, and both she and her husband were drowned.

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