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Lady Jane Grey is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays. No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 →
“just as the tutors of Jane Grey, and the other famous women of her time, taught them Latin and Greek, because they knew nothing else themselves, so now the improvement in the education of girls is made by giving them gentlemen as teachers”
No datable encounters with Grey, Lady Jane have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“just as the tutors of Lady Jane Grey, and other distinguished women of her time, taught them Latin and Greek”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to Lady Jane Grey — “just as the tutors of Lady Jane Grey, and other distinguished women of her time, taught them Latin and Greek” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.
“just as the tutors of Jane Grey, and the other famous women of her time, taught them Latin and Greek, because they knew nothing else themselves, so now the improvement in the education of girls is made by giving them gentlemen as teachers”
Fuller, Margaret. "Woman-Her Sphere and Education." New-York Daily Tribune, .