Author
Joseph Forsyth is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1844–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Maria Rotch, 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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Joseph Forsyth’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have reread with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re448 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6115-6116; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. "I have reread with increased pleasure" is an explicit reading statement about a specific book.
“Meanwhile I have got out all our tours in Italy. Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have reread with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Forsyth's and Bell's Italy would be useful to you in the way of suggestion.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Hudspeth identified the work; Forsyth (1763–1815), imprisoned in France during the Napoleonic Wars, produced what was considered a model of discriminating observation about Italian art and antiquities.
“One is Forsyth’s Italy. This is a collection of fragments. If we remember right, the author was one of the unhappy Detenus”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Meanwhile I have got out all our tours in Italy. Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have reread with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified this as Joseph Forsyth's Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813), written by Forsyth while imprisoned by the French following his Italian travels of 1802–03.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have re-read with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.