WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)

La Mare au Diable and related works; Mauprat

La Mare au Diable and related works; Mauprat (1837) Inferred

George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876) · 1837

InferredNamed explicitly; 'La Roche Mauprat' named; 'Simon and Indiana' named in footnote. George Sand named explicitly with 'La Roche Mauprat' (i.e., Mauprat, 1837).

AnalyzedReadMentioned

Documented 1845

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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AttestedConfirmed reading1847Evidence ↓

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.

Dated
1847La Mare au diableAttested
“Since I came, I have read two charming stories recently written by her.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Paris, 18 January 1847; footnote: and La Mare au diable, which had been published in the Courrier francais, 6-15 February 1846
Same explicit first-person statement 'I have read two charming stories' covers this second Sand work.

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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1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p63-64

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“Mary Wolstonecraft, like Madame Dudevant, (commonly known as George Sand,) in our day, was a woman whose existence better proved the need of some new interpretation of woman's rights...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named explicitly; 'La Roche Mauprat' named; 'Simon and Indiana' named in footnote. George Sand named explicitly with 'La Roche Mauprat' (i.e., Mauprat, 1837).

Named explicitly; 'La Roche Mauprat' named; 'Simon and Indiana' named in footnote. Footnote also mentions 'Simon and Indiana' (Indiana 1832, Simon 1836).