Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Joel Tyler Headley(1813–1897)

Joel Tyler Headley is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1845–1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James Nathan, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Books · Essays
Documented
1845–1846
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

“and by Mr. Headley who has a real love of natural beauty and picturesque power in describing it. Mr. Headley is one of the few entertaining persons I know here; he is full of vivacity and feeling, quick if not deep, and sparkles along in talk very pleasantly.”
The Alps and the Rhine: A Series of Sketches · Letter to James Nathan · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Joel Tyler Headley

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York2records
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Headley in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p80
mentioned
“At Miss Lynch's was introduced to me Headly author of those letters from Hamilton County with quick glancing eye and hawk nose”

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

Fuller identifies Joel Tyler Headley as the "author of those letters from Hamilton County," though Hudspeth identified that the "letters from Hamilton County" remain unidentified and that Headley wrote no work with that exact title.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p178
analyzed · read
“and by Mr Headly who has a real love of natural beauty and picturesque power in describing it.”

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

She praises Headley's "real love of natural beauty and picturesque power," and Hudspeth's notes confirm she called the work "charming" in her Tribune writing of the same period.

1845—

The Alps and The Rhine . . .

“The Alps and The Rhine . . .”
analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“THE ALPS AND THE RHINE; By J.T. HEADLEY. Wiley & Putnam’s Library of American Books, No. X. It is a bold enterprise to make up a volume of descriptions of scenery.”
“They gave out at Goldau, but by dint of strings, &c. I made them do till I reached Arth, where I was compelled to abandon the trustiest companions of all my travels”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Alps and The Rhine . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 December 1845.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p171
analyzed · read
“and by Mr. Headley who has a real love of natural beauty and picturesque power in describing it. Mr.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred Joel Tyler Headley's The Alps and the Rhine: A Series of Sketches (Wiley & Putnam, 1845) is mentioned.

1846—

New-York Daily Tribune

“Napoleon and his Marshals” · 1845
analyzed · read
“Napoleon and his Marshals,* [...] * Napoleon and his Marshals, by J. T. Headley.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p110

The novel is explicitly named in the footnote at line 4460.