Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Modern Greek

Thomas Hope (1769–1831) · London: John Murray, 1819; 3 vols.; pub. anonymously

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Documented 1827–1837

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence2records
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 134–135
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“Alas, was my reply — "What am I to believe — Do not philosophers maintain that the passions are the only road to knowledge, to power, and to virtue?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Anastasius vol 2d p. 141.' Thomas Hope's Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek; written at the close of the eighteenth century (London: John Murray, 1819), originally published anonymously.

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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“or among fictions Lockhart's "Reginald Dalton" Hope's "Anastasius" or Beckford's "Caliph Vathek" are very good.”

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

Fuller names Thomas Hope's Anastasius: or, Memoirs of a Greek and recommends it to Caroline as "very good"; the novel was initially attributed to Byron.

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1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I have lately been reading Anastasius, the Greek Gil Bias, which has excited and delighted me”

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