WorkMarie-Jeanne Roland de La Platière (Manon)

Mémoires [Memoirs]

Marie-Jeanne Roland de La Platière (Manon) (1754–1793) · pub. 1795

InferredMadame Roland discussed as example of intellectual companionship in marriage; her memoirs or letters referenced. Madame Roland named explicitly. The published Mémoires (1795) would be the likely source, plus the 1800 letters.

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Documented 1845

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Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p61

mentioned

“As in the case of Roland and his wife, who were friends in the household and in the nation's councils, read, regulated home affairs, or prepared public documents together, indifferently.”

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

Inferred Madame Roland discussed as example of intellectual companionship in marriage; her memoirs or letters referenced. Madame Roland named explicitly. The published Mémoires (1795) would be the likely source, plus the 1800 letters.