ABSTRACT
This article argues that Margaret Fuller's conversation with French Socialist women, directly in 1846–47 and for more extended time through textual exchange, provided a strong Parisian influence on her later allegiances in the Italian Revolution and that likewise these women responded positively to her writing. Her work held especially strong affinities with the Saint-Simonian vein of feminist socialism embodied in her editor and colleague Pauline Roland, who not only assisted her at the Paris Revue Indépendante but also had written for this group of dissident women since the early 1830s. Fuller knew at least partially of their work before her European trip but met it directly in Paris. Though Roland's promise to translate Woman in the Nineteenth Century into French for the Revue was apparently unfulfilled, the French Socialist women's long-term embrace of her Romantic feminism is apparent in the post-revolutionary Almanach des Femmes/Almanack of Women for 1853, where it was excerpted and celebrated even as Roland was also memorialized.
