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Ossoli

2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Ossoli. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.

Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)

os'so-le, Marchioness, Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), an American writer. She was born at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Possessed of a brilliant intellect and an ardent temperament, Margaret Fuller, as she is called usually, is remarkable for her association with literary men and her influence upon literary and artistic taste, rather than for her own productions. In 1840-42 she was editor of the Dial. In 1844 she became literary critic of the New York Tribune. A few years later she visited Europe and married the Marquis d'Ossoli. She served in the Italian hospitals during the siege of 1849. She embarked with her husband and child for America, but suffered death by shipwreck almost in sight of port. Margaret Fuller was a friend and literary associate of Emerson. She belonged to the transcendental school of philosophers. Her books are collections of essays published originally in various periodicals. Among the titles are: Summer on the Lakes, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Papers on Literature and Art. See Channing ; William H

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

MARCHIONESS D', SARAH MARGARET FULLER, best known as MARGARET FULLER, an American writer on literature, art and society; born in Cambridgeport, Mass., May 23, 1810. For some years she taught in girls' 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. fashionable watering