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“To a Sky-Lark”

To a Sky-Lark (1827) Inferred

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · 1827

InferredQuoted phrase 'True to the kindred points of Heaven and home' is from Wordsworth's poem 'To a Sky-Lark'.

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Documented 1845

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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

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“True to the kindred points of Heaven and home.”

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

Inferred Quoted phrase 'True to the kindred points of Heaven and home' is from Wordsworth's poem '“To a Sky-Lark”'.

Fuller uses it without attribution as a description of ideal womanhood.