Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim

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493 Index References to Margaret Fuller are abbreviated as MF, Timothy Fuller (MF’s father) as TF, and Ralph Waldo Emerson as RWE. Aborn, Susan, 112, 117 Abrams, M. H.: on MF’s life as Romantic pilgrim’s journey, 5; on parable of prodigal son, 4–5; on Romantic journey as “voyage at sea,” 437n9 (chap. 18) Adams, John Quincy: fails to give TF diplomatic position, 71; Fullers give ball in honor of, 60; loses presidency, 71; translates Oberon, 40 “Address on the Emancipation of the Negro in the West Indies” (RWE), 234 Aeneid, The (Virgil), 17, 21–22, 310, 362, 379; effect of, on MF, 22, 36–37; MF reads, as child, 35, 36–37; war wounds in, 393; mentioned, 41, 44, 271. See also Dido Alastor (Shelley), 29, 252–53, 256, 280, 336 Alcott, Bronson: appearance and personality of, 102, 183; as critical of Dial, 124; friendship of, with MF, 113; meets MF, 100–101; reputation of, sullied, 103, 105–6; Socratic pedagogical method of, 105; and Temple School of Human Culture, 100, 105 —works of: Conversations with Children on the Gospels, 102–3, 106; “Orphic Sayings,” 167, 226 American Monthly Magazine, 94 “American Scholar, The” (RWE), 110, 111, 114 André (Sand), 145, 148 animal magnetism, 63, 105, 118, 210; defined, 106–7, 119, 158–59; in “The Great Lawsuit,” 188, 195, 197, 202; MF’s belief in, 106–7, 158, 186, 189, 202; in Summer on the Lakes, 208–9, 211–12 Animal Magnetism (Légér), 453n19 Antigone (character), 1, 2, 5, 6, 191, 405; MF compared with, 411; MF on, to Nathan, 281, 410; MF on, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 279, 362 Antigone (Sophocles), 6 Apocalypse of St. John: influence of, on radical Romantics, 287; MF on, 369–70 “Apology” (Plato), 74, 182 Apuleius, 200 Arachne, 405 Arconati Visconti, Costanza, 396; Belgioioso disapproved of by, 344–45; and constitutional monarchy, 344; Gioberti admired by, 322, 374; Giuseppe Mazzini disapproved of by, 321–22, 325, 342, 344; MF on, 322; MF’s friendship with, 354; Mickiewicz disapproved of by, 321–22; political views of, 322 Arconati Visconti, Giuseppe, 321 Argyle, Isador, 34, 316. See also Hesitation Ariosto, 102, 159; Orlando Furioso, 54, 151 Arnim, Bettina Brentano von, 121–22; Günderode, 175 association: Channing and Christian, 352; MF on voluntary, 351 Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 301 Atkinson, Henry George, 295 Austrian aggression, 358, 374; forces advance on Rome as part of, 381; and hanging of civic guard soldier, 352; MF on, 323–24, 325; and Milanese boycott tobacco tax, 342 Bacchae, The (Euripides), 141 Bacchantes (Maenads), 141, 167, 174, 206; MF compared with, 144; MF compares 494 Index Sand with, 304; MF’s allusion to, 441n7; mentioned, 307 Bacchus (Dionysus), 141, 167, 206, 208–9, 221. See also Bacchantes Bailey, Philip, 124, 230 Balzac, Honoré de, 147–48, 149; Elizabeth Barrett Browning on, 144; MF critical of, 240; MF intrigued by, 145; on Sand, 148; mentioned, 150 —works of: The Girl with the Golden Eyes, 149; Le livre mystique, 145 Bancroft, George, 79 Bandiera brothers (Attilio and Emilio), 296–97 Bangs, Henry, 407, 408 “Banquet, The” (Plato; The Symposium), 119, 140–41, 150–51, 178, 181, 182 Barker, Anna Hazard, 4, 61–62, 101, 378; attends Conversations, 124, 171–72; engagement of, 163; MF’s passion for, 164, 166, 175–76; RWE praises beauty of, 129, 132, 152. See also Ward, Samuel Grey Barlow, Almira Cornelia Penniman, 61, 67, 84, 124; on MF’s death, 411; as model for Zenobia, 425n19, 438n17; unhappy marriage of, 323 Barlow, David, 61, 425n19 “Barn Burning” (Faulkner), 275 Barrett, Elizabeth. See Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Barthes, Roland, 249 Bates, George, 410 Beard, Mary, 223 Becker, Ernest, 4, 213 Beethoven, 411; MF on, 313; MF’s letter to imaginary, 71, 197–98 Belgioioso, Princess Cristina Trivulzio, 344–45; MF compares, with Sand, 345; as role model for MF, 345–46; William Story on, 382 Bellevue Alms House, 235 Ben Lomond, 293–94, 409, 410 Béranger, Pierre de, 145 Berlin, Isaiah, 288 Bible, 39, 62, 68, 102, 142, 168, 174, 186–87, 223, 362, 445n19, 449n4; faults woman for man’s fall, 191, 216, 226; gift of, from Angelino to Brownings’ son, 404; impact of, on MF, 5, 198, 200, 395; MF quotes, 114, 260, 370; MF’s grandmother reads, 11; MF translates, into Latin, 32; quotations from, 62, 193, 197–98, 201, 222–23, 260, 264, 456n13; and Revelation, 287, 369–70; as source of images...