Author

Lady Caroline Lamb(1785–1828)

Lady Caroline Lamb is documented in Fuller’s letters (1831). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1831

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 Lady Caroline 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.

Dated
1831GlenarvonAttested
“At E.s I read that tangled phantasm of passionate folly, Glenarvon, from beginning to end”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
"I read...Glenarvon, from beginning to end" is an explicit, completed reading statement.

In Fuller’s words

“At E.s I read that tangled phantasm of passionate folly, Glenarvon, from beginning to end, and made some new remarks on that mist of hallucination and bewildered cunning the Dr's mind.”

Glenarvon · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1831

When Fuller engaged with Lady Caroline Lamb

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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

Lamb in Fuller’s reading world

Glenarvon1831

Documentary evidence

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

1831—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p182

analyzed · read

“At E.s I read that tangled phantasm of passionate folly, Glenarvon, from beginning to end, and made some new remarks on that mist of hallucination and bewildered cunning the Dr's mind.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Fuller names Glenarvon explicitly and reports reading it from beginning to end at Elizabeth's house; she comments analytically on it as a "tangled phantasm of passionate folly" and discusses its "mist of hallucination and bewildered cunning," as Hudspeth identified, attributing it to Lady Caroline Lamb.