Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Fredrika Bremer(1801–1865)

Fredrika Bremer is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1843–1850). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1843–1850
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“My Dear Mrs. Chapman —Just returned from a tour in one of the northern provinces of my country, (DALARNA, the mother-province of our Liberty,) I hasten to answer your letter from Boston of the 22d February, and am very sorry not to have been capable of answering it before.”
The Liberty Bell for 1845. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Fredrika Bremer

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York2records
VI. Europe2records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Bremer in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p138
analyzed
“there is a short acct of Frederica Bremer and other Swedish writers that would be worth translating for the Dial, just now when interest is excited on the subject.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller names Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865), a Swedish novelist and feminist, in the context of Mundt's literary survey and the English translation of her novel The Neighbours (1842), translated by Mary Howitt. Fuller suggests Mundt's section on Bremer "would be worth translating for the Dial," though she discusses Bremer only as a subject within Mundt's work rather than as an author whose books she has read.

1845—

The Countess Faustina . . .

“The Countess Faustina . . .”
mentioned
“They are not, however, more defective in these ways than the dialogues in Miss Bremer’s novels, which (the dialogues) people read, we understand.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Countess Faustina . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 March 1845. · 12 March 1845

1845—

The Liberty Bell for 1845.

“The Liberty Bell for 1845.”
quoted · read
“My Dear Mrs.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Liberty Bell for 1845." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 January 1845. · 7 January 1845

1849—

Letter to Marcus and Rebecca Buffum Spring

p294
analyzed · read
“Write of Miss Bremer. I think she will see many things in the U. S. to please her kind heart, and trust she will give the benefit of many wise suggestions and reproofs.”

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

Hudspeth's notes confirm that Bremer visited the North American Phalanx in October 1849.

1850—

Letter to Marcus and Rebecca Spring

p54
analyzed
“It was a nice account you gave of your visit to the N.A. with Miss Bremer. She found some neighbours as good as her own.”

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

Inferred Fuller alludes to Fredrika Bremer's novel through a parenthetical reference to Die Nachbarn and jokes "She found some neighbours as good as her own." Hudspeth identified Fuller plays on the title of Bremer's novel Die Nachbarn (The Neighbours, Swedish Grannarne, 1837), demonstrating her familiarity with Bremer's work.