1837—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
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“Thomas a Kempis and George Herbert are constantly at my elbow”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Author
Thomas à Kempis(c. 1380–1471)
Thomas à Kempis is documented in Fuller’s letters (1837). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
- Engagement
- ReadMentioned
- Present in
- Letters
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- 1837
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 à Kempis’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
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- 1837De Imitatione ChristiAttested
“Write me all about her Thomas a Kempis and George Herbert are constantly at my elbow and remind met”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 18 June 1837
'Are constantly at my elbow and remind me' is an explicit statement of ongoing active reading companionship with these two books.
When Fuller engaged with Thomas à Kempis
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Kempis in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.