Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Daniel Defoe(1660–1731)

Daniel Defoe is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Books
Documented
1843
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Daniel Defoe

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Defoe in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“Wondering, as Crusoe, we survey the land; / Happier than Crusoe we, a friendly band;”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Direct allusion to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). Fuller's poem in the text names 'Crusoe' explicitly in a couplet, comparing herself and companions to the castaway surveying an unknown island.