WorkWilliam Godwin

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799)

William Godwin (1756–1836) · London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799

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Documented 1838–1844

Letters • Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“You must not expect another like St Leon such do not grow on every bush.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Brown's Novels” · 1846
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“The Marguerite of Godwin, no less, is all refinement and the purest tenderness; but she is also the soul of honor, capable of deep discernment, and of acting in conformity with the inferences she draws.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p84

Inferred Fuller identifies and discusses the character of Marguerite, the wife of the protagonist in William Godwin's novel St. Leon (1799).