Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Anne MacVicar Grant(1755–1838)

Anne MacVicar Grant is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, and journals (1843–1845). One work is named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
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Books · Essays · Journals
Documented
1843–1845
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 Anne MacVicar Grant’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1843Work not namedPossiblePosthumous testimony

    “Margaret quotes from Mrs. Schoolcraft and from Mrs. Grant passages”

    Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · Summer on the Lakes, summer 1843

    Same dated (1843) documented instance of Fuller quoting Anne Grant in Summer on the Lakes.

In Fuller’s words

“Mrs Grant's American Lady / What Mrs Grant saw was chiefly from / hearsay and told her in the years / of childhood, before she had in / her mind principles under which / to classify. Of course any kind / of accuracy, espec y philosophical / accuracy is not to be depended / on, though much may be found / Grant mistakes are obvious even / to my knowledge, as, for instance, / about Pontiac's stratagem to take / Detroit”
Memoirs of an American Lady · Journal 1837–1843

When Fuller engaged with Anne MacVicar Grant

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York4records
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.

Grant in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“Mrs. Grant speaks thus of the position of woman amid the Mohawk Indians: "Lady Mary Montague says, that the court of Vienna was the paradise of old women...”

Inferred Grant' explicitly and provides a lengthy block quotation about the position of Mohawk women. Anne MacVicar Grant of Laggan's Memoirs of an American Lady (1808) drew on her childhood years near Albany, NY, and includes detailed observations of Mohawk Indian customs. Fuller also compares Grant's observations favorably to Mrs. Grant's seems much nearer the truth').

“But these, even Sir William Johnston, whose life, surrounded by the Indians in his castle on the Mohawk, is described with such vivacity by Mrs. Grant”

Inferred Grant' as having described Sir William Johnson's life on the Mohawk 'with such vivacity.' This is Anne MacVicar Grant (1755–1838), Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America (London, 1808). The book describes the Albany and Mohawk Valley world before the Revolution, including the life of Sir William Johnson among the Mohawk.

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p184
analyzed · quoted · read
“I have mislaid an extract from "The Memoirs of an American Lady"... Mrs. Grant expresses a wish that Reformers would take a hint from observation of this circumstance...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

1845—

The North American Review.

“The North American Review.”
mentioned2 selected passages
“There is also an article on the memoir of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, which has a charm, not only from the picture given of a strong, sweet, and simple character”
“The “Memoirs of an American Lady” may be inaccurate in details and chronological arrangement, but it cannot be doubted that it gives the spirit which pervaded the life of the early Albanian settlers”

Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Journal 1837–1843

pp. 45–48
analyzed · readManuscript page
“Mrs Grant's American Lady / What Mrs Grant saw was chiefly from / hearsay and told her in the years / of childhood, before she had in / her mind principles under which / to classify.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.