WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)
George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876) · 1847
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Documented 1847–1849
Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
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.
“This book of hers I have read "II Piccinino," is very feeble”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 18th March 1849
'This book of hers I have read "Il Piccinino"' is an explicit first-person reading statement.
“Another longer one she has just sold to La Presse for fifteen thousand francs.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Fuller mentions a longer new Sand novel sold to La Presse for 15,000 francs but does not name it; Hudspeth identified this as Le Piccinino, which La Presse serialized from May to July 1847.
“I send you 'Piccinino' I believe the understanding is for you to return it to Mr. Perkins when you have read it”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“This book of hers I have read "II Piccinino," is very feeble, but I hope the cause may be found in the distractions, the family distresses to which she has been subject since I was in Paris and not to any declension yet.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Fuller explicitly names and has read George Sand's Il Piccinino, an Italian-set novel about a young brigand in Sicily, though she evaluates it as "very feeble" while charitably attributing the weakness to Sand's personal troubles—her daughter Solange's troubled marriage and its financial aftermath, as as Hudspeth identified.