Author
James Abraham Hillhouse is documented in Fuller’s books and reading notebooks (1825–1846). One work is named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had James Abraham Hillhouse’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“We would here pay a tribute to our countryman Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re291 (B-1 Life Without and Life Within (essays), B-1-14; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. 'Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight' is an explicit self-reported reading episode tied to a life period.
“Hadads soliloquy in view of Jerusalem — Hillhouse — / "'Tis so; — the hoary Harper sings aright / How beautiful is Zion! Like a queen / Armed with a helm in virgin loveliness, / Her heaving bosom in a body cuirass … Goaded by love, as by immortal hate, / Of Him predicted, o'er the haughty line / I burn to consummate a double triumph.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Hadads soliloquy in view of Jerusalem — Hillhouse — / "'Tis so; — the hoary Harper sings aright / How beautiful is Zion!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Explicitly attributed 'Hadads soliloquy in view of Jerusalem — Hillhouse.' James Abraham Hillhouse's “Hadad: A Dramatic Poem” was published in 1825 (New York: G.
“We would here pay a tribute to our countryman Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p135