Author

Mary Ann Browne(1812–1844)

Mary Ann Browne is documented in Fuller’s letters (1830). One work is named, all in Letter to Almira P. Barlow, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1830
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Mary Ann Browne’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1830"Two Agonies"Attested

    “I have read one book,—a piece of poetry entitled "Two Agonies", by M. A. Browne”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, Nov 19. 1830

    Explicit first-person statement 'I have read one book,—a piece of poetry entitled "Two Agonies"'.

When Fuller engaged with Mary Ann Browne

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Browne in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1830—

Letter to Almira P. Barlow

p170
analyzed · read
“I have read one book,—a piece of poetry entitled 'Two Agonies', by M. A. Browne, (pretty caption, is it not?)”

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