Letter to Caroline Sturgis
p323“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.
WorkWilliam Godwin
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
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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.
“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).