Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John Foxe(1516–1587)

John Foxe is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1836). One work is named, all in Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
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 →

When Fuller engaged with John Foxe

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.

Foxe in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

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mentionedManuscript page
“Foxe's Martyrdom was to Whitefield what books of chivalry were to Don Quixote, or the lives of the Saints to Ignatius Loyola.”

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

Inferred Foxe's work is named within a passage from Southey's Life of Wesley via its familiar title 'Foxe's Martyrdom' (i.e., Acts and Monuments / Book of Martyrs). Southey's Life of Wesley mentions 'Foxe's Martyrdom' as the inspirational reading for Whitefield, comparing it to the effect of chivalric romances on Don Quixote.