WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)

Teverino

George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876)

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Documented 1847

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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  • 1847TeverinoAttested

    “Since I came, I have read two charming stories recently written by her.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Paris, 18 January 1847; footnote: Fuller read Teverino (Brussells, 1845), which was published in Paris in 1846

    'I have read two charming stories recently written by her' is an explicit first-person reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)1record
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Letter to Elizabeth Hoar

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“Since I came, I have read two charming stories recently written by her.”

The same sentence also names La Mare au Diable [The Devil's Pool]. Counted as one engagement.

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

as Hudspeth identified as Teverino (published in Paris 1846) and La Mare au diable (published in Courrier français, February 1846, and in collected form).

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1845—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Teverino" and the "Mare au Diable," which she has lately published, are as original, as masterly in truth, and as free in invention, as anything she has done.”

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