WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)

Hélène ou Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre [Hélène, or The Seven Strings of the Lyre]

George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876)

InferredIn her engagement with George Sand's *Helene, or The Seven Strings of the Lyre* (1840), Margaret Fuller notes a parallel between the religious development of Spiridion and that of Sand's character, Helene.

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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1839Les Sept cordes de la LyreAttested
“But in Les Sept cordes de la Lyre which I read first, I saw the knowledge of the passions”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re220, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re220 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10623; tier A; date taken from this witness; same passage) — counted once here. First-person statement 'which I read first' explicitly describing reading George Sand's work.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“The development of the religious sentiment being the same as in Helene, I at first missed the lyric effusion of that work”

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

Inferred In her engagement with George Sand's Helene, or The Seven Strings of the Lyre (1840), Margaret Fuller notes a parallel between the religious development of Spiridion and that of Sand's character, Helene.