Author

Adam Clarke(1760–1832)

Adam Clarke is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, all in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Books
Documented
1846
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 Adam Clarke’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • undatedMemoirs of the Wesley FamilyAttested

    “in connection with another very interesting book, Clarke's "Memoirs of the Wesley Family," and have been led to far deeper interest”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    Continuation of the same first-person reading account, explicitly connecting to reading Clarke's Memoirs of the Wesley Family.

In Fuller’s words

“We have lately read it in connection with another very interesting book, Clarke's 'Memoirs of the Wesley Family,' and have been led to far deeper interest in this great stream of religious thought and feeling by a nearer approach to its fountain-head.”
Memoirs of the Wesley Family: Collected Principally from Original Documents (London: J. Kershaw, 1823; 2nd ed · Papers on Literature and Art · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Adam Clarke

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Clarke in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

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analyzed · read
“We have lately read it in connection with another very interesting book, Clarke's 'Memoirs of the Wesley Family,' and have been led to far deeper interest in this great stream of religious thought and feeling by a nearer approach to its fountain-head.”

Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.