WorkHomer

The Odyssey (c. 8th c. BCE)

Homer (c. 8th century BCE) · c. 8th c. BCE

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Documented 1845–1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“Let Ulysses drive the beeves home while Penelope there piles up the fragrant loaves — they are both well employed if these be done in thought and love, willingly.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Fuller alludes to Homer's Odyssey through the figures of Ulysses (Odysseus) and Penelope.

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Browning’s Poems.

“Browning’s Poems.”

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“My Odyssey in coarse black vivid type With faded yellow blossoms ’twixt page and page; “He said, and on Antinous directed A bitter shaft”—then blots a flower the rest!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846. · 1 April 1846