Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Elizabeth Caroline Grey(1798–1869)

Elizabeth Caroline Grey is documented in Fuller’s letters (1829–1838). One work is named, most often in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1829–1838
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

“that most exquisite copy from a too rare model, De Lisle's Rosamond, (which could not have been a creation; no mind can compound such an one from elements of knowledge or observation; 'tis too stilly unique.)”
De Lisle; or, The Distrustful Man · Letter to George T. Davis · 1829

When Fuller engaged with Elizabeth Caroline Grey

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
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.

Grey in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1829—

Letter to George T. Davis

p155
analyzed · read
“that most exquisite copy from a too rare model, De Lisle's Rosamond, (which could not have been a creation; no mind can compound such an one from elements of knowledge or observation; 'tis too stilly unique.)”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Fuller names the character De Lisle's Rosamond, and Hudspeth identified she refers to Elizabeth Caroline Grey's De Lisle; or, The Distrustful Man.

1838—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p323
analyzed · read
“I do not remember what novels I mentioned, but will mention "De Lisle" and "Village Belles" as excellent in their different ways.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.