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Basil Barrington and His Friends

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Documented 1830

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  • 1830Basil Barrington and His FriendsAttested

    “a half-satisfied interest urges me to live, love and perish! in the noble, wronged heart of Basil”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Saturday evening, 1 May 1830

    First-person immersive reflection on living inside the novel's protagonist indicates active current reading of the named work.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“a half-satisfied interest urges me to live, love and perish! in the noble, wronged heart of Basil”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.