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[xxxi] Chronology 1778 11 July Timothy Fuller born 1789 Margarett Crane born (dies 1859) 1809 18 May Timothy Fuller marries Margarett Crane 1810 23 May Sarah Margaret Fuller born at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts 1812 Julia Adelaide Fuller (dies 1814) 1815 Eugene Fuller born (dies 1859) 1817 Timothy Fuller begins serving the first of four terms in the U. S. House of Representatives William Henry Fuller born (dies 1878) 1821 Attends Dr. John Park’s school in Boston 1822 Arthur Buckminster Fuller born 1824 Attends Miss Prescott’s Young Ladies Seminary in Groton, Massachusetts Richard Frederick Fuller born (dies 1869) 1825 Timothy Fuller retires from Congress to practice law 1826 Leaves Miss Prescott’s school and returns to Cambridge James Lloyd Fuller born (dies 1891) 1828 Edward Breck Fuller born (dies 1829) [xxxii] 1833 Timothy Fuller quits his law practice and moves with family to Groton Translates Goethe’s Torquato Tasso 1834 27 November Publishes first article, “In Defense of Brutus,” in the Boston Daily Advertiser & Patriot 1835 1 October Timothy Fuller dies from cholera 1836 17 May Publishes poem on the death of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s brother, Charles July First visit to Emerson in Concord October Gives private language lessons December Begins teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston 1837 April Resigns from Alcott’s school and goes to Groton for a rest June Moves to Providence, Rhode Island, as a teacher at the Green Street School 1 September Attends her first meeting of Transcendental Club 1838 December Resigns from position at Green Street School and moves to Boston 1839 April Moves with her mother and younger brothers to Jamaica Plain, near Boston July Publishes Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe October Nominated as the editor of the Transcendentalists ’ periodical, the Dial November Begins the first series of Conversations for women, this one on Greek mythology 1840 July First issue of the Dial is published November Begins series of Conversations on the arts Chronology [xxxiii] 1841 March–May Gives a series of Conversations on mythology, attended by Caroline Healey Dall May Visits Concord and Brook Farm July Publishes “Goethe” in the Dial 24 September Ellen Kilshaw Fuller marries Ellery Channing November Begins a series of Conversations on ethics 1842 March Publishes a translation of Günderode (the correspondence of Fräulein Günderode with Bettine von Arnim) Resigns as editor of the Dial August– Visits the Emersons and the Hawthornes September in Concord 1843 May–September Begins the journey depicted in Summer on the Lakes July “The Great Lawsuit” published in the Dial November Begins a series of Conversations on education 1844 April Concludes her final series of Conversations June Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 is published July Visits the Channings, Emersons, and Hawthornes in Concord October Moves to Fishkill Landing, New York, to revise “The Great Lawsuit” Visits women prisoners at Sing Sing prison November Moves in with Horace Greeley’s family in New York December Starts as literary critic for the New-York Daily Tribune 1845 January Meets James Nathan and falls in love February Woman in the Nineteenth Century is published in America Chronology [xxxiv] June Nathan leaves for Europe September Woman in the Nineteenth Century is published in England 1846 1 August Sails for Europe with Marcus and Rebecca Spring 8 August Last column appears in Tribune September Papers on Literature and Art is published in America and England Fall Travels in England, Scotland, and France, where she meets Mazzini, Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Wordsworth, George Sand, and Adam Mickiewicz 24 September First travel letter appears in the New-York Tribune 1847 February Leaves France for Italy April–May Travels to Rome and meets Giovanni Angelo Ossoli May–October Leaves Rome and travels in northern Italy and Switzerland October Begins living in Rome 1848 April? Possibly marries Ossoli July Moves to Rieti, near Rome 5 September Angelo Eugene Philip Ossoli born November Returns to Rome 1849 February Roman Republic proclaimed April–July Siege of Rome by France begins; concludes with French invading Rome and restoring the pope to power May–June Works in a hospital in Rome during the height of the Revolution Chronology [xxxv] July Moves back to Rieti September Moves with her family to Florence, where she befriends Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 13 February Last dispatch is published in the Tribune 17 May Family sails on the Elizabeth for New York 19 July Fuller and her family die when the Elizabeth is shipwrecked off Fire Island, New York 1852 February Memoirs...