Author
Charles Lamb is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and journals (1831–1845). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Thomas Hood., 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 Charles Lamb’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
Part of the same enumerated reading list ("absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters") in the same sentence.
“Charles Lamb, who was indeed worthy to be called a human being because of those refined sympathies, said, "You call him a gentleman: does his washerwoman find him so?”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“read Lamb and never more subscribe "Yours &c! to your affectionate cousin”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller explicitly instructs Clarke to "read Lamb" as a model for warmer, more affectionate letter-writing; no specific work is named, though she likely refers to his familiar essays or personal letters.
“Lamb's letters.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Lines to a friend on his marriage. / C. Lamb. / What makes a happy wedlock - What has Fate / Not given to thee in thy well chosen Mate? / Good sense, good humor.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
Fuller copies out a poem attributed to 'C. Lamb' under the title 'Lines to a friend on his marriage,' beginning 'What makes a happy wedlock — What has Fate / Not given to thee in thy well chosen Mate?' The poem appears twice in the journal (pp. 30–31 marked as duplicate).
“Charles Lamb, who was indeed worthy to be called a human being because of those refined sympathies, said, "You call him a gentleman: does his washerwoman find him so?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Fuller attributes this saying explicitly to Charles Lamb ("Charles Lamb...
“You call him a gentleman: does his washerwoman find him so?” We may say, if she did so, she found him a man”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prevalent Idea that Politeness . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 May 1845. · 31 May 1845
“The name of Lamb is fame; we believe there was never a reader so dull as to deny his claims to admiration and to love.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Essays of Elia . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 10 September 1845. · 10 September 1845
“Lamb is always excellent; what he says may not be perfectly just in itself, but it is the genuine result of genius upon his individuality”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1845. · 19 February 1845
“The reminiscences of Lamb, are the most pleasing and characteristic of any that have been given to the world.”
“How I used to look forward to Elia, and backward for Hazlitt, and all round for Edward Herbert, and how I used to look up to Allan Cunningham”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 August 1845.