WorkMary Robinson

“Bounding Billows”

Bounding Billows (c. 1803-1806 Graupner Boston edition) Inferred

Mary Robinson (1758–1800) · c. 1803-1806 Graupner Boston edition

InferredFuller names "Bounding Billows," a song she has learned to play and sing, written by Mrs. Robinson (almost certainly Mary Robinson, the English poet and actress also known as "Perdita") during a crossing from Dover to Calais.

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“Aunt Fuller has taught me to play 'Bounding billows' and sing it.”

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

Inferred Fuller names "“Bounding Billows”," a song she has learned to play and sing, written by Mrs. Robinson (almost certainly Mary Robinson, the English poet and actress also known as "Perdita") during a crossing from Dover to Calais.