Author

Sarah Austin(1793–1867)

Sarah Austin is documented in Fuller’s letters (1833). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1833
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 this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with Sarah Austin

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Austin in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p217
read
“Also Characteristicks of Goethe by Sarah Austin Which book I shall peruse when I go down below as the people here say.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hudspeth identified this is Austin's translation of Characteristics of Goethe: From the German of Falk, von Müller, &c. (London, 1833), assembling contemporary comments about Goethe.