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Childhood and Early Youth.--School-days 1

Life in Cambridge.--Friendship of Dr. Hedge and James Freeman Clarke 19

Religious Beliefs.--Margaret's Early Critics.--First Acquaintance with Mr. Emerson 32

Art Studies.--Removal to Groton.--Meeting with Harriet Martineau.--Death of Mr. Fuller.--Devotion to her Family 44

William Henry Channing's portrait of Margaret.--Transcendental Days.--Brook Farm.--Margaret's visits there 84

Margaret's love of children.--Visit to Concord after the death of Waldo Emerson.--Conversations in Boston.--Summer on the Lakes 100

Farewell to Boston.--Engagement to write for the "New York Tribune."--Margaret in her new surroundings.--Mr. Greeley's opinion of Margaret's work.--Her estimate of George Sand 128

Margaret's residence at the Greeley mansion.--Appearance in New York society.--Visits to women imprisoned at Sing Sing and on Blackwell's Island.--Letters to her brothers.--"Woman in the Nineteenth Century."--Essay on American Literature.--View of contemporary Authors 140

Ocean voyage.--Arrival at Liverpool.--The Lake Country.--Wordsworth.--Miss Martineau.--Edinburgh.--De Quincey.--Mary, Queen of Scots.--Night on Ben Lomond.--James Martineau.--William J. Fox.--London.--Joanna Baillie.--Mazzini.--Thomas Carlyle.--Margaret's impressions of him.--His estimate of her 170

Paris.--Margaret's reception there.--George Sand.--Chopin.--Rachel.--Lamennais.--B?ranger.--Chamber of Deputies.--Berryer.--Ball at the Tuileries.--Italian Opera.--Alexandre Vattemare.--Schools and Reformatories.--Journey to Marseilles.--Genoa.--Leghorn.--Naples.--Rome. 189

Margaret's first days in Rome.--Antiquities.--Visits to Studios and Galleries.--Her opinions concerning the Old Masters.--Her sympathy with the People.--Pope Pius.--Celebration of the Birthday of Rome.--Perugia.--Bologna.--Ravenna.--Venice.--A State Ball on the Grand Canal.--Milan.--Manzoni.--The Italian Lakes.--Parma.--Second visit to Florence.--Grand Festival 205

Period of agitation in Rome.--Margaret's zeal for Italian Freedom.--Her return to Rome.--Review of the Civic Guard.--Church Fasts and Feasts.--Pope Pius.--The Rainy Season.--Promise of Representative Government in Rome.--Celebration of this event.--Mazzini's Letter to the Pope.--Beauty of the Spring.--Italy in Revolution.--Popular excitements in Rome.--Pope Pius deserts the Cause of Freedom.--Margaret leaves Rome for Aquila 219


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