Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Authors by Source

Where in the archive did Fuller meet each author? Open a source to see every name documented inside it.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for these source groupings is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

Letters(433)Books(647)Manuscripts(379)Memoirs(164)
Fuller's own correspondence

Letters

Books shared, recommended, argued with — in her own voice, to friends and family.

Open letters

433 authors · 1186 documented engagements

  1. 1Johann Wolfgang von Goethe88
  2. 2Ralph Waldo Emerson37
  3. 3Thomas Carlyle31
  4. 4William Shakespeare30
  5. 5Friedrich Schiller29
  6. 6Plato22
  7. 7George Sand (Aurore Dudevant)19
  8. 8Percy Bysshe Shelley18
  9. 9Samuel Taylor Coleridge17
  10. 10John Milton17
  11. 11Alfred Tennyson17
  12. 12Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)16
See all 433 authors in letters
Essays and books published by Fuller

Books

Reading that surfaced in print — Dial essays, Tribune columns, and her major books.

Open books

647 authors · 2425 documented engagements

  1. 1New-York Daily Tribune104
  2. 2Johann Wolfgang von Goethe76
  3. 3William Wordsworth67
  4. 4William Shakespeare64
  5. 5Robert Browning38
  6. 6John Milton32
  7. 7Percy Bysshe Shelley30
  8. 8Elizabeth Barrett Browning28
  9. 9Friedrich Schiller28
  10. 10Philip James Bailey27
  11. 11Sir Walter Scott27
  12. 12Dante Alighieri26
See all 647 authors in books
Journals, drafts, notebooks

Manuscripts

Reading recorded in private papers: extracts copied out, translations attempted, lists of what to read next.

Open manuscripts

379 authors · 826 documented engagements

  1. 1Johann Wolfgang von Goethe85
  2. 2Friedrich Schiller22
  3. 3William Wordsworth18
  4. 4William Shakespeare15
  5. 5Dante Alighieri13
  6. 6Percy Bysshe Shelley13
  7. 7George Gordon, Lord Byron11
  8. 8Robert Southey11
  9. 9Pierre-Jean de Béranger10
  10. 10Alfred de Vigny10
  11. 11Walter Savage Landor9
  12. 12Plato9
See all 379 authors in manuscripts
Posthumous biographical recollections

Memoirs

Reading attributed to Fuller after her death by editors and friends — most prominently the 1852 Memoirs.

Open memoirs

164 authors · 317 documented engagements

  1. 1Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31
  2. 2William Shakespeare13
  3. 3Friedrich Schiller9
  4. 4George Sand (Aurore Dudevant)8
  5. 5Jean Paul Richter (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)7
  6. 6Dante Alighieri6
  7. 7Thomas Carlyle6
  8. 8Ludwig Tieck6
  9. 9George Herbert5
  10. 10Gotthold Ephraim Lessing5
  11. 11Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)5
  12. 12Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)5
See all 164 authors in memoirs