Author
Orestes Augustus Brownson is documented in Fuller’s letters and journals (1838–1842). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 Orestes Augustus Brownson’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Lately I have been amusing myself with looking at you through two pair of spectacles of very dissimilar construction in Brownson's review and the Democratic.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
"amusing myself with looking at you through...spectacles...in Brownson's review" documents her engagement reading the specific review.
“A Letter to Rev. Wm. E. Channing, D. D. By O. A. Brownson. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. 1842. THAT there is no knowledge of God possible to man but a subjective knowledge, — no revelation but the development of the individual within himself, and to himself, — are prevalent statement which Mr. Brownson opposes by a single formula, that life is relative in its very nature.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I have been amusing myself with looking at you through two pair of spectacles of very dissimilar construction in Brownson's review and the Democratic.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Hudspeth identified Brownson reviewed Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address in the first issue.
“A Letter to Rev. Wm. E. Channing, D. D. By O. A. Brownson. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. 1842.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).