Author

Sarah Green

Sarah Green is documented in Fuller’s letters and journals (1839–1840). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Journal November 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
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Letters · Journals
Documented
1839–1840
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 Sarah Green’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
  • 1839Six Etchings from Salvator-RosaAttested

    “There was a book of studies from Salvator Rosa, from the Brimmer Donation, at the Athenaeum, which I looked over with great delight”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 7th Jan 1839

    "which I looked over with great delight" is a first-person statement of engaging directly with the specific book.

In Fuller’s words

“The ultimate end of organic nature is presented in the achievement of that sensibility, and the subordination of the two inferior powers thereto...”
Hunterian Oration on Vital Dynamics · Journal November 1841 · 1840

When Fuller engaged with Sarah Green

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist2records
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.

Green in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1839—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841

letter_0197.txt
analyzed
“There was a book of studies from Salvator Rosa, from the Brimmer Donation, at the Athenaeum, which I looked over with great delight”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Inferred Editor's footnote identifies the volume as Six Etchings from Salvator-Rosa by Sarah Green (1788), donated by Brimmer.

1840—

Journal November 1841

M-042.txt page 11
analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passagesSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“Thoughts suggested by the Hunterian oration on Vital Dynamics. delivered by J. H. Green, the disciple of Coleridge February. 1840.”
“The ultimate end of organic nature is presented in the achievement of that sensibility, and the subordination of the two inferior powers thereto...”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.