1846—
Letter to Alexander Ireland
p231analyzed · read
“I am much pleased to hear your feeling of Margaret.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Author
Sylvester Judd(1813–1853)
Sylvester Judd is documented in Fuller’s letters (1846). One work is named, all in Letter to Alexander Ireland, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
- Engagement
- AnalyzedReadMentioned
- Present in
- Letters
- Documented
- 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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Sylvester Judd’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
- 1846Margaret: A Tale of the Real and IdealAttested
“I am much pleased to hear your feeling of Margaret... a distinction of which I am not a little proud, now that I have read his book. He is a clergyman, but, it seems, has not for that forgot to be a Man.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · London, 6th Octr 1846
'now that I have read his book' is an explicit first-person reading statement.
In Fuller’s words
“I am much pleased to hear your feeling of Margaret. As you say, there are such beings in real life, yet I fancy the picture, like that of an antique Venus, was painted from study of several models. The writer Sylvester Judd, (a name as truly American in its style, as that of one of his own invention Beulah Ann Orff) is a man approaching middle age who has heretofore only made himself remarked by one or two strokes of character... now that I have read his book.”
When Fuller engaged with Sylvester Judd
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Judd in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.