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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe (1719), Inferred

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) · 1719

InferredDirect allusion to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). Fuller's poem in the text names 'Crusoe' explicitly in a couplet, comparing herself and companions to the castaway surveying an unknown island.

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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)

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1836

1844

1846

1850

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Wondering, as Crusoe, we survey the land; / Happier than Crusoe we, a friendly band;”

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

Inferred Direct allusion to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). Fuller's poem in the text names 'Crusoe' explicitly in a couplet, comparing herself and companions to the castaway surveying an unknown island.