“I believe we put to sword the whole number of the defendants.” * * “Indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the Town”
Author
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
- Engagement
- QuotedRead
- Present in
- Letters · Books · Essays
- Documented
- 1845
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Oliver Cromwell’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undatedLetter to Colonel Valentine WaltonDemonstrated
“To my loving Brother, Colonel Valentine Walton: These. July, 1644. DEAR SIR: It's our duty to sympathize in all mercies...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · July, 1644
A lengthy verbatim letter (spanning ~60 lines) is quoted in full, a genuinely substantial excerpt.
In Fuller’s words
“I believe we put to sword the whole number of the defendants.” * * “Indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the Town”
When Fuller engaged with Oliver Cromwell
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Cromwell in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches . . .
“Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches . . .”quoted · read2 selected passages
“Sir, God hath taken away your eldest Son by a cannon-shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 December 1845.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems
B-1-22, line 7464-7525quoted · read
“To my loving Brother, Colonel Valentine Walton: These. July, 1644. DEAR SIR: It's our duty to sympathize in all mercies...”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
A lengthy verbatim letter (spanning ~60 lines) is quoted in full, a genuinely substantial excerpt.
n.d.—
The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838
letter_0968.txtquoted · read
“It is a mortification to find so much yet to do; for at one time the scheme of things seemed so clear, that, with Cromwell, I might say, "I was once in grace.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Inferred Short quoted phrase attributed to a spoken remark by Cromwell, used rhetorically, not from reading a book.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Mem-2-03 l.8210-8211quoted · read
“with Cromwell, I might say, 'I was once in grace.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred A single short quoted phrase attributed to Cromwell, used rhetorically.