1825—
Letter to Susan Prescott
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“Next I read French,—Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe,—till eight”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkJean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi
De la littérature du midi de l'Europe [Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe]
Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842)
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- 1825De la littérature du midi de l'Europe (Literature of the South of Europe)Attested
“Next I read French,—Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe,—till eight, then two or three lectures in Brown's Philosophy.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, it July 1825
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re295 (Mem-2 Memoirs, Mem-2-01 l.2089-2091; tier A; same passage); re296 (Mem-4 Howe, letter dated July 11; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'Next I read French,—Sismondi's Literature...' describing her daily reading schedule.
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1813—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“I read French, — Sismondi's ' Literature of the South of Europe,' — till eight”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.