Author
Amariah Brigham is documented in Fuller’s published essays and manuscripts (1834–1846). One work is named, most often in Prison Discipline., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Amariah Brigham’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have finished Brigham on the influence of mental cultivation on Health”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · none in this section
Explicit statement: 'I have finished Brigham on the influence of mental cultivation on Health'.
“He will be glad to learn that, from writings of his, one, at a dangerous crisis, received admonition that saved the best hopes of life from a shipwreck.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“If Brigham's theory were correct… I have finished Brigham on the influence of mental cultivation on Health — I cannot pretend to decide on his premises”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“The name of Amariah Brigham (New-York State Lunatic Asylum) excites to mention of a debt of gratitude.”
“He will be glad to learn that, from writings of his, one, at a dangerous crisis, received admonition that saved the best hopes of life from a shipwreck.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prison Discipline." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1846.