Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1841). One work is named, all in Reading Notes, 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedRead
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

“The story of the brave tailorling is an epitome of much of the literature of the day. … There is the same sort of humor in this story, as is Frederic and Catharine, both are German stories.”
Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Household Tales] · Reading Notes, 1841 · 1841

When Fuller engaged with Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

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.

Grimm in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

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analyzed · quoted · read
“The story of the brave tailorling is an epitome of much of the literature of the day. … There is the same sort of humor in this story, as is Frederic and Catharine, both are German stories.”

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

Inferred Fuller retells "The Valiant Little Tailor" and pairs it with "Frederick and Catherine," both from the Grimms' collection; she does not name the collection.