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Valentine and Orson

Valentine and Orson (medieval French romance, anglicised as chapbook from c. 1550) Inferred

Anonymous · medieval French romance, anglicised as chapbook from c. 1550

InferredFuller alludes to 'Orson,' the twin brother in the medieval French romance Valentine and Orson (Valentijn et Ourson), who is raised by bears in the forest and becomes a wild man.

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Documented 1843

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“We have a nursery tale, of which children never weary, of a little boy visiting a bear house and holding intercourse with them on terms as free as Muckwa did.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller alludes to 'Orson,' the twin brother in the medieval French romance Valentine and Orson (Valentijn et Ourson), who is raised by bears in the forest and becomes a wild man.