Author
George Frideric Handel is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1844–1846). One work is named, most often in Christmas., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 George Frideric Handel’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“But to return to Handel. The only biography of him I have seen is a little volume from the library of the University at Cambridge”
Papers on Literature and Art
Explicit statement 'The only biography of him I have seen is a little volume from the library at Cambridge', naming a specific work she accessed.
“—Bombet, p. 180... He knew the principal works of that great master by heart... —Ibid. p. 291.”
Papers on Literature and Art
Substantial ~22-line quotation with page citations from the Life of Handel.
“that work which makes us conscious, as we listen, why the soul of man was thought worthy and able to upbear a cross of such dreadful weight ? the Messiah of Handel.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“that work which makes us conscious, as we listen, why the soul of man was thought worthy and able to upbear a cross of such dreadful weight ? the Messiah of Handel.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Christmas." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 December 1844. · 25 December 1844
“We must all have felt it to be a privilege of priceless value, that we are born in an age, through which are transmitted the inspirations of Handel”
Fuller, Margaret. "Music." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 January 1846. · 31 January 1846
“Haydn, Handel, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, each in a different way, actually fulfilled vast desires of the soul”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mr. Fontana’s Concert." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 January 1846. · 3 January 1846
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Even in Handel's Messiah, I am half incredulous, half impatient, when the sadness of the second part comes to check ...”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.