 Fuller began touring in England and Scotland with the Springs, sending articles back to Greeley’s Tribune. She met interesting people there, including the elderly poet Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau, the English feminist who had earlier criticized her for shunning reforms other than feminism. Now that Fuller had embraced a much wider reform agenda, the two got along. London harbored an intellectual curiosity of the time, Thomas Carlyle, who rejected the Calvinist Christianity of his youth, celebrated German Romanticism, and knew many smart women, one of whom was his wife Jane. When Fuller and Carlyle met, mutual admiration ensued. But always with serious reservations. Carlyle’s politics were very different from Fuller’s. He rejected democracy, endorsed antisemitism and white racism, and celebrated populist, nationalist historic leaders like Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great. (Generations later some Nazis would look back on Carlyle as a precursor.) Another Romantic whom Fuller met in London would arouse her more uncritical admiration: Giuseppi Mazzini, the heroic Italian revolutionary. Mazzini embraced liberal democracy and personal fulfillment as aspects of his Italian republican nationalism. Fuller welcomed the chance to speak in an event at a free elementary school for poor Italian expatriate boys, where she endorsed Mazzini’s revolutionary cause and invoked the principle of self-improvement through public education so popular with American Unitarians and Whig reformers. Mazzini loved it.