WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)
George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876)
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Documented 1839
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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.
“But here (in the Lettres d'un Voyageur) what do I see? An unfortunate woman wailing her loneliness”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re223, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re223 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10655; tier A; date taken from this witness; same passage) — counted once here. First-person rhetorical question 'what do I see?' while discussing Lettres d'un Voyageur, implying direct reading.
“But here (in the Lettres d'un Voyageur) what do I see? An unfortunate [woman] wailing her loneliness, wailing her mistakes, writing for money? [...] G.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“But here (in the Lettres d'un Voyageur) what do I see? An unfortunate bewailing her loneliness, bewailing her mistakes, writing for money!”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
In George Sand's Lettres d'un Voyageur, Margaret Fuller identifies an author "bewailing her loneliness, bewailing her mistakes, writing for money!" This observation suggests Fuller's critical engagement with the work, which she found to be "brought close to her person," indicating an active and personal reading experience.