Author
Albert Brisbane is documented in Fuller’s books and journals (1843). One work is named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
“Some there were, even, discussing the doctrines of Fourier. It seemed pity they were not going to, rather than from, the rich and free country where it would be so much easier, than with us, to try the great experiment of voluntary association”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Some there were, even, discussing the doctrines of Fourier.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller names 'the doctrines of Fourier' explicitly. Fourier's ideas were widely discussed in American intellectual circles, disseminated primarily through Albert Brisbane's Social Destiny of Man (1840) and articles in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Write letter to Brisbane / on Fourier's views of music”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.
Inferred The specific title is inferred as the most probable source; confidence PROBABLE.