Author
Anna Brownell Jameson is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, journals, reading notebooks, and manuscripts (1833–1845). 7 distinct works are named, most often in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Read for the 1843 western tour
Named among the books Fuller consulted for her western journey, and discussed in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 Anna Brownell Jameson’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have only lately read the "Female Sovereigns" of your beloved Mrs Jameson, and like them better than any of her works!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, March 9. 1834
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re36 (Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe, letter, Groton, 1834; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have only lately read the Female Sovereigns.'
“Artists mentioned by Mrs Jameson in Visits and Sketches new to me. / Peter Cornelius - historical painter, best works in fresco at the Glyptothek in Munich. / Wilhelm Wach_ / Prof. Julius Schnorr. / Prof. Heinrich Hess _ / Wilhelm Tischbein – quiz Goëthe's – / Clement Zimmerman / Schadow - Forster &c – / Baroness Freyberg - Julie von Eyloffstein. / Leo von Klenze. Prof. Girtner, and Hiedeloff most celebrated architects. / Sculptors. L. & F. Kieck, Dannecker. Schwanthaler &c –”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Now I hate this bit of journal_ Mrs Jameson without her eloquence "I partest."— / But what’s the use of shrinking from my / Aurelia self.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).
Inferred The phrase ‘I partest’ in quotation marks may be a playful allusion to a phrase from one of Jameson’s texts, but the specific source is not identified.
“I have only lately read the "Female Sovereigns" of your beloved Mrs Jameson, and like them better than any of her works!”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Mrs Jameson inveighs against ridicule as if she had sat at the feet of A.W. Schlegel… "The word vulgar is to be used as the reverse of poetical!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Fuller names 'Mrs Jameson' explicitly and discusses her treatment of 'Beatrice' (a Shakespeare character) and the 'humourous woman'.
“Such books as Carlyle's life of Schiller, or Mrs Jameson's Visits and Sketches you know of course.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Will you buy and send me Mrs Jameson's new book, if it be not made expensive by a handsome cover or her own absurd vignette etchings.”
“I did not ask Mrs Jameson for any thing except some local particulars, and still think her conduct ungenerous, but not so much so, since I now think her knowledge more scanty than I had supposed.”
Inferred She identifies the book's addressee as Mrs. Austen (Sarah Taylor Austin, the German translator).
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“Artists mentioned by Mrs Jameson in Visits and Sketches new to me. / Peter Cornelius - historical painter, best works in fresco at the Glyptothek in Munich. / Wilhelm Wach_ / Prof.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
“through Mrs. Jameson's work, entitled the Loves of the Poets.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“The few stories Mrs. Jameson wrote out, though to these also a sentimental air has been given, offend much less in that way than is common in this book.”
Inferred Jameson' explicitly, in the context of Indian stories. Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) included several chapters on Ojibwe culture and stories collected first-hand.
“Mrs.”
“one of the home lodges, unlike in shape to the temporary ones at Mackinaw, but these have been described by Mrs. Jameson.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“excused in the following instance mentioned by Mrs. Jameson. A woman dreamt in youth that she was betrothed to the Sun.”
Inferred Named in connection with the story of an Indian woman 'betrothed to the Sun'; later named explicitly in context of advocacy for women. Jameson.' The story of the Native American woman 'betrothed to the Sun' appears in Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838).
“from the refined perception of character, admirable suggestions are given in her "Women of Shakspeare," and "Loves of the Poets.”
“admirable suggestions are given in her "Women of Shakspeare," and "Loves of the Poets.”
“Mrs.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“Mrs. Jameson sees and feels; there is always a basis of truth in her statements, but she gilds the refined gold, and paints the lily.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1845. · 19 February 1845
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Mrs Jameson on Mackinac & the / Summit / She looks generously at the / Indian. / What she learnt from Mrs / Schoolcraft.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.
Inferred Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838) in her planning notes for Summer on the Lakes. She notes that Jameson 'looks generously at the Indian' and records what Jameson learned from Mrs. Fuller also references 'Mackina' (Mackinac), which is a focal location in Jameson's book. Fuller's own visit to Mackinac (1843) mirrors Jameson's itinerary.
“now it seems / to me that with his calm / and unpretending tone, / his precision and wide / range of critical know- / ledge his book is far / preferable to one [?] full / of Jameson flourishes.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Inferred Fuller names 'Jameson flourishes' without specifying a title; likely refers to Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters (1845) given the Raphael subject matter, or Sacred and Legendary Art (1848) — cannot be certain which.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I learned, the other day, that, in a copy of Mrs.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.