Author

Geoffrey Chaucer(c. 1343–1400)

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

This author survives here only through the 1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled after her death by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with Geoffrey Chaucer

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I believe I had the pleasure of making her acquainted with Chaucer, with Ben Jonson, with Herbert, Chapman, Ford, Beaumont and Fletcher, with Bacon, and Sir Thomas Browne.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred This archive entry concerns Geoffrey Chaucer, an author Margaret Fuller encountered under the auspices of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although no specific work is named, Emerson’s remarks suggest Fuller’s introduction to Chaucer’s oeuvre, situating him among other esteemed English Renaissance writers within Fuller's learning.