Author

Thomas Hope(1769–1831)

Thomas Hope is documented in Fuller’s letters, published essays, and reading notebooks (1827–1845). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Library of Choice Reading., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Essays · Notebooks
Documented: 1827–1845

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Thomas Hope’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1826Anastasius: or, Memoirs of a GreekAttested
“I have lately been reading Anastasius, the Greek Gil Blas, which has excited and delighted me; but I do not think you like works of this cast.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 5 March 1826
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re669 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-01 l.2148-2150, letter dated March 5 1826; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have lately been reading Anastasius' with personal reaction.

In Fuller’s words

“Alas, was my reply — "What am I to believe — Do not philosophers maintain that the passions are the only road to knowledge, to power, and to virtue? … Like the heat of the sun, that of the passions may strengthen a few poisons, but alone it brings forth all the sweets and healthful plants of the creation." Anastasius vol 2d p. 141.”

Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Modern Greek · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1827

When Fuller engaged with Thomas Hope

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence2records

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York2records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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

Hope in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1827—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 134–135

excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“Alas, was my reply — "What am I to believe — Do not philosophers maintain that the passions are the only road to knowledge, to power, and to virtue?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Anastasius vol 2d p. 141.' Thomas Hope's Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek; written at the close of the eighteenth century (London: John Murray, 1819), originally published anonymously.

1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p297

read

“or among fictions Lockhart's "Reginald Dalton" Hope's "Anastasius" or Beckford's "Caliph Vathek" are very good.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Fuller names Thomas Hope's Anastasius: or, Memoirs of a Greek and recommends it to Caroline as "very good"; the novel was initially attributed to Byron.

1845—

Library of Choice Reading.

“Library of Choice Reading.”

mentioned2 selected passages

“The book has been compared with Anastasius; but in that book, as in his Architecture, Hope showed a masterly mind”

“but in that book, as in his Architecture, Hope showed a masterly mind; that is, he showed himself a mind that seizes instinctively, not merely on what is salient, but what is leading.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Library of Choice Reading." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 April 1845.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p66

analyzed · read

“I have lately been reading Anastasius, the Greek Gil Bias, which has excited and delighted me”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.