Author

William Enfield(1741–1797)

William Enfield is documented in Fuller’s letters (1825). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement: ReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1825

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 William Enfield’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1825Institutes of Natural PhilosophyAttested
“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton January 5th. 1825
Explicit first-person 'I study this term' names the specific work and dated term.

When Fuller engaged with William Enfield

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

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.

Enfield in Fuller’s reading world

Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and ExperimentalInferred1825

Documentary evidence

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

1825—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

p145

read

“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred William Enfield's Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental was a standard text that had gone through four American editions by 1824. Fuller's reference to "Geo Enfields Philosophy" indicates her engagement with this natural philosophy text during her time at Groton.