WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning

“To the Same. A Recognition.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

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Documented 1845

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  • undatedTo George Sand: A Desire / To the Same: A RecognitionAttested

    “Since writing the above, I have read with great satisfaction, the following sonnets addressed to George Sand by a woman... it is a source of pride and happiness to read this address from the heart of Elizabeth Barrett.”

    Woman in the Nineteenth Century · Since writing the above, I have read... published five or six years ago

    Explicit first-person 'I have read with great satisfaction, the following sonnets' statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1844
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Review.

“Review.”
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“TO THE SAME. A RECOGNITION. True genius, but true woman! dost deny Thy woman’s nature with a manly scorn, And break away the gauds and armlets worn By weaker women in captivity?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 February 1845. · 1 February 1845