ABSTRACT
There are many signs of George Eliot's interest in the life and personality of Margaret Fuller, with whom, especially in the days before her union with Lewes, she apparently felt a strong sense of identification. In a letter of 1852 she confided that 'It is a help to read such a life as Margaret Fuller's. How inexpressibly touching that passage from her journal—"I shall always reign through the intellect, but the life! the life! O my God! shall that never be sweet?" I am thankful, as if for myself, that it was sweet at last'. 1 The review of the Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli that appeared in the Westminster of April, 1852, is perhaps by George Eliot, and in July of 1852 she wrote to Chapman of her wish to write a full-scale article on Margaret Fuller's life. 2 This was never done, but George Eliot later wrote, in addition to the article reprinted below, notices of Margaret Fuller's At Home and Abroad for both the Westminster (July, 1856) and the Leader (17 May 1856).
