Author
Euripides is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and journals (1842–1850). 6 distinct works are named, most often in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Euripides’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“and some dramas of Euripides, and, were envy" ever worth our while, I should deeply envy those who can with convenience gain access to the Greek mind”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Canton, 12th May 1842
Continuation of the same explicit reading list naming Euripides' dramas.
“In the Trojan Dames, there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra... "The maiden of Phoebus, to whom the golden haired / Gave as a privilege a virgin life"... "My frantic child." [...] "How sweetly at thy house's ills thou smil'st”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“some dramas of Euripides”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller explicitly states she has been reading "some dramas of Euripides" during her time away but does not name which specific plays she engaged with.
“Lately in studying that heaving work, the Iphigenia of Euripides, I have been interested, most of all, to observe how the mind of the audience is prepared for the …”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light.”
Inferred Fuller attributes this to 'him who makes Iphigenia say to Achilles' — Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
Line 'Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light' is attributed to 'him who makes Iphigenia say to Achilles' — this is Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
“In the Trojan Dames, there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra... "The maiden of Phoebus, to whom the golden haired / Gave as a privilege a virgin life"...”
Inferred Author inferred from the title, 'Trojan Dames' (= Euripides' Trojan Women).
“Iphigenia! [...] you were worthy to live / We are fallen on evil times..." [Miranda's notes] [...] "Had I, my father, the persuasive voice / Of Orpheus...”
“Never have the names of father and daughter been uttered with a holier tenderness than by Euripides, as in this most lovely passage, or in the "Supplicants," after the voluntary death of Evadne: Iphis says "What shall this wretch now do?...”
Inferred Brief reference to the Suppliant Women (Iphis lamenting Evadne) — 'in the Supplicants, after the voluntary death of Evadne'. Named explicitly 'the Supplicants' — Euripides' Suppliant Women. Brief quotation of Iphis' lament for his daughter Evadne.
“In the "Trojan dames" there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra... "The virgin of Apollo..." [...] Andromache to her child: "Dost thou weep, / My son?”
“Macaria is more like one of Massinger's women...”
Inferred Appendix G: Macaria's speech from The Heraclidae (Children of Hercules) — 'Macaria has the clear Minerva eye.'. Macaria (daughter of Hercules) is from Euripides' Heraclidae. Extended quotation of her self-sacrifice speech.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“Hecuba shows that mixture of shame and reverence that prosaic kindred always do towards the inspired child, the poet, the elected sufferer for the race.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“You did not give me back with Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller mentions "Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me," establishing that she had a Greek-language text of an Iphigenia work, made extracts from it, and had Elizabeth Hoar translate those passages.