WorkGotthold Ephraim Lessing
Miss Sara Sampson, ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)
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Documented 1833
Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
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.
“I return Lessing.' I could hardly get through Miss Sampson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · June 1833
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re247 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1012.txt; tier A; same passage); re246 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-02 l.4942-4944, dated June 1833; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I could hardly get through Miss Sampson' after returning the Lessing volume.
“I return Lessing. I could hardly get through Miss Sampson.”
Also reprinted in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. VI: 1850. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.