Author

Foreign Quarterly Review

Foreign Quarterly Review is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1831–1836). One work is named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedAnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Notebooks
Documented
1831–1836
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“From The Foreign Quarterly review No 34, for July 1836 - on the correspondence of J.H. Merck. "With all long-established prejudices of society [...] Merck put an end to his life with his own hand, on the 27th of June, 1791 at the age of fifty. A list of his correspondents comprises the names of Herder [...] Goethe [...]”
"Letters to John Henry Merck" · Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Foreign Quarterly Review

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed1record
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.

Review in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1831—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p181
read
“If you feel inclined to pour the lore of the Foreign Review into my desiring ear on Thursday afternoon”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller refers to "the lore of the Foreign Review" (the Foreign Quarterly Review, a British periodical), which she and Clarke were reading together.

1835—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p220
read
“My life has lately been embellished by the establishment of an Atheneum in G. which enables me to read the Foreign and Quarterly reviews”

Fuller, Margaret. "To James F. Clarke, 1 February 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 219–222. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p119–p123
excerpted · analyzed · readManuscript page
“From The Foreign Quarterly review No 34, for July 1836 - on the correspondence of J.H. Merck.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).