Source quoted in another source (Chicago)
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24. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890), 11, quoted in John Matteson, The Lives of Margaret Fuller (New York: Norton, 2012), 7.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890, 11. Quoted in John Matteson, The Lives of Margaret Fuller (New York: Norton, 2012), 7.
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