1819—
Letter to Timothy Fuller
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“My Deserted Village goes on slowly. I have only translated a page and a half.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Author
Oliver Goldsmith(1728–1774)
Oliver Goldsmith is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, journals, and manuscripts (1819–1846). 6 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
- Engagement
- AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
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- Letters · Books · Essays · Journals · Manuscripts
- Documented
- 1819–1846
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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Oliver Goldsmith’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
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- 1819The Deserted VillageDemonstrated
“Write My Deserted Village goes on slowly. I have only translated a page and a half.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819
Engagement type Translated automatically qualifies; she reports translating a page and a half of the poem.
- 1820The Deserted VillageDemonstrated
“when I had finished my Deserted Village I shall finish it well”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17th January 1820
Engagement type Translated automatically qualifies; references ongoing translation of the poem.
In Fuller’s words
“opening found they belonged to a large copy of the Cook’s oracles. They looked like the Goldsmith’s Animated Nature which I read at my grandfathers when a child.”
When Fuller engaged with Oliver Goldsmith
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Goldsmith in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1820—
Letter to Timothy Fuller
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“when I had finished my Deserted Village I shall finish it well and desire nothing but the pleasure of giving it to her.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
1833—
Journal 1833–1834
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“opening found they belonged to a large copy of the Cook’s oracles. They looked like the Goldsmith’s Animated Nature which I read at my grandfathers when a child.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).
1845—
Prince’s Poems.
“Prince’s Poems.”quoted · read
“exclaiming, in the words of his favorite poet, Goldsmith— “Creation’s heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prince’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1845. · 13 August 1845
1845—
Review.
“Review.”mentioned
“but—the “Spectator,” “Telemachus,” “Goldsmith’s Animated Nature” and the “Iliad.” Forms of gods and heroes more distinctly seen”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 February 1845. · 5 February 1845
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
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“the harmony of colouring were as unlike anything else I saw, as the Vicar of Wakefield to Cooper's novels.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1846—
The Modern Drama
“The Modern Drama”mentioned
“Is it the same thing to act the " Lady in Comus," and the Lady in " She stoops to Conquer," Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and Sir Lucius O'Triggei ?”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p117
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p117; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Early Reading Notes on Ballads
p2analyzed · readManuscript page
“I acknowledge its charms in Goldsmith's "Hermit”
Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.