Author
Joseph Addison is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, and manuscripts (1845–1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Notes on Books, Children, and Faith, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Harvard College Library loan
Charged out of Gore Hall on the card of Richard Frederick Fuller, Margaret's brother and then a Harvard senior; women could not borrow in their own name. Household access, not proof of her reading — not counted toward engagements. The full ledger →
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 →
“It is written with the greatest simplicity, in the style of the days of Addison and Steele; and its limited technology contrasts strongly with the brilliancy of statement and infinite " nuances" of the present style of writing on such subjects.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Our true Uncle, Sir Roger de Coverley, and ye, fair realms of Nature’s history whose pictures we tormented all grown persons to illustrate”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 February 1845. · 5 February 1845
“The thick book will, no doubt, become the “entertaining library” of the country farm-house and village inn, and take the place of the Spectator and Rambler”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books for the Holidays." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 December 1845. · 22 December 1845
“mentioned in the story Addison quotes from Boccalini, whom Apollo rewarded for his labours by presenting him with a bushel of chaff from which all the wheat had been winnowed.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Fuller references 'the story Addison quotes from Boccalini' — Addison cited Traiano Boccalini's Ragguagli di Parnasso in The Spectator.
“It is written with the greatest simplicity, in the style of the days of Addison and Steele; and its limited technology contrasts strongly with the brilliancy of statement and infinite " nuances" of the present style of writing on such subjects.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p237
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p237; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Arthur reading aloud to me in the Spectator _ This lively picture of the old, new civil world, with its delicate pathos and pleasantry must ever be charming.”
“A beautiful paper by Addison on Milton! I had forgotten how fine they were and will read them all again.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Books, Children, and Faith." Houghton Library, Harvard University.