Author
John Ford is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1829–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
“But presently, when Mr. Lowell criticises in detail Ford’s tragedy of ‘The Broken Heart,’ in his remarks upon the beautiful scene between Orgilus and Penthea, he seems quite undiscerning as to the feelings of Penthea and the motives which induce her to act as she does.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I have had,—while staying a day or two in Boston,—some of Shirley's, Ford's, and Heywood's plays from the Athenaeum.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Hudspeth identified John Ford's Dramatic Works appeared in London in 1827, likely the recent edition available to her.
“Ford and Massinger have, in this respect, soared to a higher flight of feeling than he...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“His plots raise him, and carry him along with them wither they please, and it is generally only at their culminating points that he shows much strength; and then it is the strength of passion, not of reason.”
“But presently, when Mr.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 January 1845.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I have had, — while staying a day or two in Boston, — some of Shirley's, Ford's, and Heywood's plays from the Athenaeum.”
Inferred Although a specific title by Ford is not identified, her inclusion of his name signifies engagement with his dramatic works.
“I believe I had the pleasure of making her acquainted with Chaucer, with Ben Jonson, with Herbert, Chapman, Ford, Beaumont and Fletcher, with Bacon, and Sir Thomas Browne.”
Inferred This entry identifies John Ford, the Jacobean playwright, as one of the literary figures Margaret Fuller was introduced to, according to Emerson's account.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.