Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

François-Joseph Fétis(1784–1871)

François-Joseph Fétis is documented in Fuller’s letters (1840). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1840
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 François-Joseph Fétis

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.

Fétis in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p174
mentioned
“Mr Brownson's review containing Frank Tuckerman's lecture.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Hudspeth identified: Tuckerman's review essay was a review of Fétis's Biographie universelle des musiciens; Fuller read the review and thus engaged with Fétis's work at one remove. Fuller does not name Fétis directly; she is reading a review of his work rather than Fétis himself.

Hudspeth identified: Tuckerman's review essay was a review of Fétis's Biographie universelle des musiciens; Fuller read the review and thus engaged with Fétis's work at one remove.