Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Edward Fairfax(c. 1560–1635)

Edward Fairfax is documented in Fuller’s letters and journals (1829). One work is named, most often in Letter to Unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Journals
Documented
1829
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 Edward Fairfax

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence2records
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.

Fairfax in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1829—

Journal Entry December 1829

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readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“If not, look to Fairfax, Gerusalemme? Lib. Canto 12 Stanza 77.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Entry December 1829." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

1829—

Letter to Unknown

p157
read
“If not, look to Fairfax's Jerusalem Delivered, Canto 12, Stanza 77”

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