Ossoli
MARCHIONESS D', SARAH MARGARET FULLER, best known as MARGARET FULLER, an American writer OSTEND on literature, art and society; born in a general system founded on the prin- Cambridgeport, Mass., May 23, 1810.
For some years she taught in girls' result of mechanical obstruction to the schools; edited the "Dial" (1840-1842).
Her collected essays on "Women in the Nineteenth Century" were published in 1843. She contributed regularly to the New York "Tribune" papers on literature and art. At Rome she married the Marquis d'Ossoli. The pair were on their way to New York when their ship was wrecked and both were lost. Her other books are: "Art, Literature, and Drama"; "At Home and Abroad"; "Life Without and Life Within." She died July 19, 1850.
OSTEND, a fashionable watering place in the Belgian province of West Flanders, on the German Ocean, 77 miles W. N. W. of Brussels. Two spacious floating basins for the Dover mail-packets were completed in 1874; and as a station also for London steamers, and the terminus of various lines of railway, Ostend is a lively and active place of transport traffic. It is an important fishing station, and has a good school of navigation, a handsome Cursaal (1878), a city hall (1711), a fish market, and a lighthouse (1771; 175 feet). The manufactures include linen, sail cloth, candles, and tobacco. Dating from 1072, Ostend is memorable for the protracted siege by the Spaniards which it underwent from July 7, 1601, to Sept. 20, 1604. Twice again it surrendered to the Allies in 1706, and to the French in 1745. The fortifications have been demolished since 1865. Pop. about 45,000.
In the World War (1914-1918) Ostend was for a brief period the capital of Belgium. Occupied by the Germans Oct. 5, 1914. It was bombarded 187 times in the course of the war, during which 271 persons were killed and 496 injured, with damage to the town of $15,- 400,000.