WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)
George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876)
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Documented 1839–1845
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Essays • Manuscripts
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.
“When I read in Leone Lioni an account of the jeweller's daughter's life with her mother”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re224, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re224 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10664; tier A; date taken from this witness; same passage) — counted once here. First-person statement 'When I read in Leone Lioni an account of...' explicitly describing reading.
“in Andre there is a vein of the best in the two others is seen her worst”
The same sentence also names Indiana. Counted as one engagement.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“When I read in Leone Lioni an account of the jeweller's daughter's life with her mother prospect in dress and learning to be looked at when dressed avec un front impossible, it reminded me exceedingly of [illegible] and her mother.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“which those readers who chance at first on such of her books as “Leone Leoni,” may fail to find, or even such as “Simon” and “Spiridion,” though into the imperfect web of these are woven threads of pure gold.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 February 1845. · 1 February 1845
“When I read in Leone Lioni the account of the jeweller's daughter's life with her mother, passed in dress and in learning to be looked at when dressed”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.