Author

Gerald Griffin(1803–1840)

Gerald Griffin is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1830–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Essays
Documented: 1830–1845

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 Gerald Griffin’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
1830The Rivals; Tracy's AmbitionAttested
“I thank you a thousand times for "The Rivals." Alas!! I must leave my heart in the book”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 16 March 1830
Personal, emotionally specific response to a named book just received ('I must leave my heart in the book') documents active engagement with the text.

In Fuller’s words

“The whole picture reminds so forcibly of the finding the body of Eily O’Connor as represented in “The Collegians,” that we think Hood must have had that fine tragedy in his mind, as he wrote.”

The Collegians · Review. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Gerald Griffin

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Griffin in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1830—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p160

analyzed · read

“I thank you a thousand times for 'The Rivals.' Alas!! I must leave my heart in the book, and spend the livelong morning in reading to a sick lady from some amusing story-book.”

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

Hudspeth identified this as Gerald Griffin's The Rivals; Tracy's Ambition, and Griffin (1803–1840) was an Irish novelist and playwright best known for The Collegians.

1845—

Review.

“Review.”

mentioned

“The whole picture reminds so forcibly of the finding the body of Eily O’Connor as represented in “The Collegians,” that we think Hood must have had that fine tragedy in his mind, as he wrote.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 16 January 1845. · 16 January 1845