Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Simon Berington

Simon Berington is documented in Fuller’s letters (1837). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
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Letters
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1837
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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

“I have one other curious and interesting, lent me by Mr Greene who has many good things "Gaudentio di Lucca" by Bishop Berkley; did you ever hear of it?”
The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca · Letter to Caroline Sturgis · 1837

When Fuller engaged with Simon Berington

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Berington in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p297
analyzed · read
“I have one other curious and interesting, lent me by Mr Greene who has many good things "Gaudentio di Lucca" by Bishop Berkley; did you ever hear of it?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Fuller names Gaudentio di Lucca, long attributed to Bishop George Berkeley but probably written by the Reverend Simon Berington, and expresses surprised curiosity about it, calling it "curious and interesting"; the book was lent to her by Albert Gorton Greene, and she is actively reading it.