Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkPedro Calderón de la Barca

El mágico prodigioso [The Wonder-Working Magician]

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) · 1637

InferredNamed explicitly as 'Calderon's Justina' — Justina is the heroine of Calderón's El mágico prodigioso (1637), a play about a Christian martyr.

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Documented 1845

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“Calderon's Justina resists all the temptation of the Demon, and raises her lover, with her, above the sweet lures of mere temporal happiness.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named explicitly as 'Calderon's Justina' — Justina is the heroine of Calderón's El mágico prodigioso (1637), a play about a Christian martyr.