Author

William Herschel

William Herschel is documented in Fuller’s books (1836). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli), and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedRead
Present in: Books
Documented: 1836

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 →

When Fuller engaged with William Herschel

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

p.60

analyzed · read

“her letters and journals make suggestive comments on Goethe, Shelley, Sir James Mackintosh, Herschel, Wordsworth, and others”

Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.

Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to William Herschel — “her letters and journals make suggestive comments on Goethe, Shelley, Sir James Mackintosh, Herschel, Wordsworth, and others” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.