WorkAlfred Tennyson

The Skipping-Rope, in Poems

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Confirmed reading

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.

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1842Poems (1842)Attested
“I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · August 1842
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re19 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-07b, line 17957, letter Aug 1842; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson'.

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I. Childhood

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IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I remember that Margaret said, that Tennyson's little poem of the skipping-rope must have been written for her, where the lover, expressing his admiration of the fairy-like motion and the light grace of the lady, is told — 'Get off, or else my skipping-rope Will hit you in the eye.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.