Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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Deutsche Schnellpost

Deutsche Schnellpost is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1845–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in German Newspaper., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “translated”.

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1845–1846

Publication venueFuller published in this periodical, or read and translated from it for the Tribune. It is listed as a venue, not an author; the passages below record where she also read, cited, or discussed it.

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“This journal is conducted with great spirit, and should be consulted by all the readers of German, who desire fresh and full intelligence from the liberal party abroad.”
German Newspaper. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Deutsche Schnellpost

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York9records
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Schnellpost in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p146
translated · read
“I have been much interested by the letter of the Carpenters and the homage paid to the Mother of the Carpenters by them!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller translated a letter from Parisian journeymen carpenters that appeared in the Deutsche Schnellpost, which the Tribune published on 5 August 1845 during a significant strike. She states 'I have been much interested by the letter of the Carpenters' and has also followed subsequent Tribune reports describing the arrest and release of the carpenters' informal leader, a woman who provided them food and shelter.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

column heading
read
“I open the 'Deutsche Schnellpost,' published in New-York, and find at the head of a column 'Juden und Frauen-emancipation in Ungarn.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

1845—

German Newspaper.

“German Newspaper.”
translated · analyzed · read2 selected passages
“This journal is conducted with great spirit, and should be consulted by all the readers of German, who desire fresh and full intelligence from the liberal party abroad.”
“We shall, henceforth, frequently translate or abridge articles from its pages.”

Fuller, Margaret. "German Newspaper." New-York Daily Tribune, 6 January 1845.

1845—

Courrier des Estats Unis.

“Courrier des Estats Unis.”
mentioned
“The Parisian correspondent of the Schnellpost, also, makes himself merry with the play of M. Thiers.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Courrier des Estats Unis." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 June 1845. · 7 June 1845

1845—

Deutsche Schnellpost.

“Deutsche Schnellpost.”
analyzed · read
“The publishers of this interesting and spirited journal have, this year, begun to issue a weekly paper in addition to their former arrangement.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Deutsche Schnellpost." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 January 1845. · 25 January 1845

1845—

Franz Liszt and Eugene Sue.

“Franz Liszt and Eugene Sue.”
mentioned
“Franz Liszt and Eugene Sue. From the Deutsche Schnellpost. The celebrated Pianist, Franz Liszt, is now in Spain.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Franz Liszt and Eugene Sue." New-York Daily Tribune, 11 January 1845. · 11 January 1845

1845—

From the Schnellpost.

“From the Schnellpost.”
mentioned
“From the Schnellpost. LETTERS FROM WARSAW mention that the pictures illustrative of the life of the Polish people lately exhibited here by the artist, Lisinka Raumann”

Fuller, Margaret. "From the Schnellpost." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 February 1845. · 24 February 1845

1845—

New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge.

“New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge.”
translated · read
“Translated from the Deutsche Schnellpost. Some weeks ago was translated into many of our journals the noble protest of a Catholic priest, Johannes Ronge”

Fuller, Margaret. "New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 March 1845. · 12 March 1845

1845—

The Child of the Islands . . .

“The Child of the Islands . . .”
mentioned
“following extract which we take from the Schnellpost”

Also reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "The Child of the Islands . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 26 July 1845. · 26 July 1845

1846—

Wonders Have Not Ceased in our Times.

“Wonders Have Not Ceased in our Times.”
translated · read
“A new gush of lava is seen from Vesuvius; that is a brilliant show, but no wonder, because seen so often that it ceases to move the gazer with a sense of mystery.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Wonders Have Not Ceased in our Times." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 April 1846. · 24 April 1846

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Monument to Goethe.

“Monument to Goethe.”
mentioned
“We find in the Schnellpost a letter copied from a German journal, which gives an interesting account of the festival on the occason of erecting the statue of Goethe”

Fuller, Margaret. "Monument to Goethe." New-York Daily Tribune, .