Author

Harro Harring(1798–1870)

Harro Harring is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Dolores. By Harro Harring., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “translated”.

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1846
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

“To-day appears this Novel, for which the author has been able to find no publisher. It will have no artificial aid to its circulation, but must rest solely on its own merits.”
Dolores · Dolores. By Harro Harring. · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Harro Harring

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe5records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Harring in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Letter to Charles Edwards Lester

p210
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“His counsel attach great importance to being able to say then that the work (Dolores) is in press.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Hudspeth's notes provide the full context of the dispute and trial outcome, and Fuller had already written about this case in her Tribune article "Publishers and Authors" (3 February 1846).

1846—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p237
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“He can tell you of his Scandinavian runes in honor of toiling Gods and Heroes”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Hudspeth identified Emerson received a copy of Harring's novel Dolores: A Historical Novel of South America (New York, 1846) along with this letter.

1846—

Publishers and Authors.

“Publishers and Authors.”
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“DOLORES. By Harro Harring. We see in the Evening Mirror of Friday, 30th January, a short notice of Harro Harring, and of the work he has written since his arrival among us.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Publishers and Authors." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 February 1846. · 3 February 1846

1846—

Dolores. By Harro Harring.

“Dolores. By Harro Harring.”
translated · analyzed · quoted · read4 selected passages
“To-day appears this Novel, for which the author has been able to find no publisher. It will have no artificial aid to its circulation, but must rest solely on its own merits.”
“It is no dream—it yet shall be fulfilled, The nations yet shall rise in all their might, And love on the earth its heavenly throne shall build”
“We add the translation of Harro Harring’s letter to the King of Denmark, the friend and patron of his earlier years, written in London, 1842.”
“Sire: He who has lost his Fatherland has no King. Permit then that I address you Simply as a man, without violation Of the royal dignity.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Dolores. By Harro Harring." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 April 1846.