Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Elizabeth Caroline Hamilton Gray (Mrs. Hamilton Gray)(1800–1887)

Elizabeth Caroline Hamilton Gray (Mrs. Hamilton Gray) is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1841). One work is named, all in Reading Notes, 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedRead
Present in
Manuscripts
Documented
1841
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“From Mrs Hamilton Gray's tour to the sepulchres of Etruria. 1839. Campanari said that he was excavating as usual in a rough but quiet-looking spot, when suddenly he heard a great crash, the earth fell in, and he found himself standing in the centre of twelve figures.”
Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839 · Reading Notes, 1841 · 1841

When Fuller engaged with Elizabeth Caroline Hamilton Gray (Mrs. Hamilton Gray)

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.

Gray in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p86
excerpted · quoted · read
“From Mrs Hamilton Gray's tour to the sepulchres of Etruria. 1839.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).