Author

Catharine Beecher

Catharine Beecher is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1845
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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“The persons who propose themselves to the examination and instruction of the teachers at Cincinnati, till the plan shall be sufficiently under weigh to provide regularly for the office, are Mrs. Stowe and Miss Catherine Beecher”
The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Catharine Beecher

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women.

“The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women.”
mentioned2 selected passages
“ascribed alternately to Mrs. Stone and Miss Catherine Beecher, but of which we understand both those ladies decline the responsibility.”
“The persons who propose themselves to the examination and instruction of the teachers at Cincinnati, till the plan shall be sufficiently under weigh to provide regularly for the office, are Mrs.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women." New-York Daily Tribune, 30 September 1845.