Author
Lydia Maria Child is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and manuscripts (1835–1846). 6 distinct works are named, most often in Mrs. Child’s Letters., 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 Lydia Maria Child’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Mrs Child's Oasis- Her descriptions of S. American scenery very pretty”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re497 (Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers), M-015.txt lines 151-155; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Journal reading-log entry documenting a specific just-read work (Child's Oasis) with reaction.
Books Emerson sent or offered, his secondhand reports, and his own references — never counted in Fuller’s totals.
Emerson: “Your copy, it is said, has disappeared, then I will send you mine”
Loan offered to Fuller · Myerson, letter of 17 December 1843 (page locator provisional)
Inferred Emerson does not name the book; Letters from New-York (1843) is the probable title given the December 1843 date, but it is not asserted by the letter.
Distinct from the existing Oasis record (re496; its duplicate re497 was merged into it 2026-10-11).
“The New Year’s show in the windows was exceedingly beautiful this year. The shawls are of richer colors, the patterns more delicately tinged, the jewelry, cutlery, and crockery, are of more tasteful patterns. I look with interest on these continually progressive improvements, because they seem to me significant of a more perfect state of society than we have yet known.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Mrs Child's Oasis- Her descriptions of S. American scenery very pretty - How would it be to go there. I might establish a school.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“and rises immeasurably above Philothea, a Romance, by Mrs Child.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Now that I am sending directly to you, I must take the oppory to thank you for giving me your book.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller thanks Child for "your book," which she has reviewed through "a little notice in The Dial." Hudspeth identified the book as Child's Letters from New-York, and quote Fuller's review from The Dial.
“The extensive and growing popularity of Mrs. Child as a writer is an earnest of good.”
“The New Year’s show in the windows was exceedingly beautiful this year.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mrs. Child’s Letters." New-York Daily Tribune, 10 May 1845.
“As long as there are copies of this popular book to be procured in so neat a form readers will hasten to seek for it.”
“This volume is not an essay upon woman’s rights, or a philosophical investigation of what is or ought to be the relation of the sexes.”
Fuller, Margaret. "History of Women; by L.M. Child . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 November 1845.
“The Juvenile Miscellany,” formerly published by Mrs. Child, was much and deservedly esteemed by children. It was a healthy, cheerful, natural and entertaining companion to them.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 February 1845. · 5 February 1845
“There are exceptions to this censure; stories by Mrs. Child have been published in the magazines, and now and then good ones by Mrs.”
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846
“There are exceptions to this censure; stoiies by Mrs. Child have been published in the magazines, and now and then good ones by Mrs.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p308
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p308; page given is to the 1869 reprint.