WorkAlfred Tennyson
"A Dream of Fair Women" (1832, rev. 1842)
Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892) · 1832, rev. 1842
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Documented 1845
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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 am sorry that Tennyson, who spoke with such fitness of all the others in his 'Dream of fair women,' has not of Iphigenia... Of Jeptha's daughter, he has spoken... 'I heard Him, for He spake, and grief became A solemn scorn of ills.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Quoted Tennyson stanza within the same large excerpted block of translated tragic verse.
“I am sorry that Tennyson, who spoke with such fitness of all the others in his "Dream of fair women," has not of Iphigenia...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.