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The Loves of Mejnoun and Leila'

The Loves of Mejnoun and Leila' (1797) Inferred

InferredFuller explicitly names "Leila" and "Mignoun" as characters in "those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together," clearly referring to the Persian poetic tradition of Layla and Majnun—the famous love-story tradition exemplified by Nizami Ganjavi's verse romance (c. 1188 CE).

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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 Almira P. Barlow

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“as Leila said to Mignoun, in those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together in more studious hours. 'Let fate do her worst &c!”

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

Inferred Fuller explicitly names "Leila" and "Mignoun" as characters in "those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together," clearly referring to the Persian poetic tradition of Layla and Majnun—the famous love-story tradition exemplified by Nizami Ganjavi's verse romance (c. 1188 CE).