Margaret Fuller: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 - Milestone Documents

Margaret Fuller: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

( 1844 ) Commentary by Barry Alfonso, Independent Scholar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • “Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates, and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.” - Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
  • “Methods copied from the education of some English Lady Augusta, are as ill suited to the daughter of an Illinois farmer, as satin shoes to climb the Indian mounds. An elegance she would diffuse around her, if her mind were opened to appreciate elegance; it might be of a kind new, original, enchanting, as different from that of the city belle as that of the prairie torch-flower from the shopworn article that touches the cheek of that lady within her bonnet.” - Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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