Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Dorothea Lynde Dix(1802–1887)

Dorothea Lynde Dix is documented in Fuller’s letters (1842). One work is named, all in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1842
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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“I will have them sent to you and the little prayer book also. If you do not receive the latter, it will be because I could not get it, not because I have forgotten your wish.”
Meditations for Private Hours · Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1842

When Fuller engaged with Dorothea Lynde Dix

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
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.

Dix in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1842—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p57
read
“I will have them sent to you and the little prayer book also. If you do not receive the latter, it will be because I could not get it, not because I have forgotten your wish.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Hudspeth's notes and Fuller's own reference to "Dorothea Dix" in a related letter confirm the author as Dorothea Lynde Dix, the religious writer and future mental-health reformer, whose Meditations for Private Hours was published in 1828 and frequently reprinted.