Author
Peter Abelard; Heloise is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1845). One work is named, most often in Letter to Unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“was succeeded by the Breton Abelard, and the Breton Decartes. Each of these three gave the impetus to the philosophy of his own age.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“My mother was a Calvinist, very strict, but she was always reading 'Abelard and Eloisa,' and crying over it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified this likely as an edition of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise translated by John Hughes, which after 1775 included Pope's heroic epistle "Eloisa to Abelard." The reading is attributed to the mother, not to Fuller herself.