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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Margaret Fuller Ossoli. (search)
to the spiritual fact of its promise than accurate measure of its performance. This was received with delight by us ardent Lowellites in those days, and it still seems to me admirable. In the third volume of the Dial, she wrote of Beethoven, Sterling, Romaic and Rhine ballads, and other themes. In the fourth volume she published a remarkable article, entitled, The Great Lawsuit; Man versus Men, Woman versus Women. It was a cumbrous name, for which even the vague title, Woman in the nineteehis [Wordsworth's] meditations has had in allaying the fever of the public heart, as exhibited in Byron and Shelley. This is a rare series of condensed criticisms, on authors about whom so much has been written, and her remarks on the new men — Sterling, Henry Taylor, and Browning — were almost as good. She was one of the first in America to recognize the genius of Browning, and, while his Bells and pomegranates was yet in course of publication, she placed him at the head of contemporary Engli