WorkJohn Gibson Lockhart

Spanish Ballads

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Documented 1826–1845

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1826Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and RomanticAttested
“and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
Continuation of the same explicit studying statement naming Castilian ballads.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1826—

Letter to Susan Prescott

p154

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“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”

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

Inferred Fuller refers to "Castilian ballads"; Hudspeth identified this as probably John Gibson Lockhart's Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic.

The attribution is marked probable because Hudspeth himself uses the qualifier "probably."

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p174-175

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“THE WEDDING OF THE LADY THERESA." FROM LOCKHART'S SPANISH BALLADS. / "'Twas when the fifth Alphonso in Leon held his sway...”

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

Appendix C: Explicitly attributed 'FROM LOCKHART'S SPANISH BALLADS'; the poem 'The Wedding of the Lady Theresa' given in full. Appendix C. Explicitly attributed to Lockhart's Spanish Ballads (1823).

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Mostly Extracts

pp46–50

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“Count Arnaldos.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).

Fuller explicitly attributes the work to 'Lockhart's translations from a Spanish Cancionero.'