Author

Francis Bowen(1811–1890)

Francis Bowen is documented in Fuller’s letters (1838). One work is named, all in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1838
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 Francis Bowen

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.

Bowen in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1838—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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read
“Have you read our friend Mr Bowen's Berkeley?”

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

Hudspeth identified this as Bowen's article on "The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne" in the Christian Examiner (July 1838), which was also separately published as Berkeley and His Philosophy.