Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Firdausi (Abu'l-Qasim Ferdowsi)(c. 940–1020)

Firdausi (Abu'l-Qasim Ferdowsi) is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1841). One work is named, all in Reading Notes, 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Manuscripts
Documented
1841
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 Firdausi (Abu'l-Qasim Ferdowsi)

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.

Ferdowsi) in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p8
mentioned
“Let me look for translations of the Bostan Nameh and Shah Nameh. The spirit of these Persian tales is that of the loftiest chivalry.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).