WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)

André

André (Paris: H. Dupuy, 1835)

George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876) · Paris: H. Dupuy, 1835

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Documented 1839–1840

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    “Still in "André" and "Jacques" I traced the same high morality”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re221, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re221 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10644; tier A; date taken from this witness; same passage) — counted once here. First-person reflection tracing themes 'I traced' implying direct reading of André and Jacques.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist3records
V. New York
VI. Europe
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1839—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p98
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“I am sorry you read the wrong Sands first though in Andre there is a vein of the best in the two others is seen her worst.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

as Hudspeth identified that Emerson had read André, Leone Leoni, and Indiana, and had shared his reactions with Fuller.

1839—

Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p13–p14
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“Still in "André" and "Jacques" I traced the same high morality of one who had tried the liberty of circumstance only to learn to appreciate the liberty of law, to know that licence is the foe of freedom.”

The same sentence also names Jacques. Counted as one engagement.

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p136
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“will you send me Andre by Cary”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1835—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p22
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“Still, in Andre and in Jacques, I traced the same high morality of one who had tried the liberty of circumstance only to learn to appreciate the liberty of law”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.