Author

Charles Lane(1800–1870)

Charles Lane is documented in Fuller’s letters (1843–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1843–1845
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“Lane's notice (in a newspaper) was left, I believe, with Mother. If she has it, I shd like it sent me when W. Channing comes, or by any other good opportunity. I hope it is not lost, being the only notice that ever appeared of the book, I thought worth keeping.”
review article in Herald of Freedom, 5 September 1845, of Woman in the Nineteenth Century · Letter to Richard F. Fuller · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Charles Lane

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
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.

Lane in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p137
analyzed · quoted · read
“It was pity to break Mr Lane's piece. He needs to fall his whole length to show his weight.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller refers to "Mr Lane's piece," naming the author but not the title

1845—

Letter to Richard F. Fuller

p164
read
“Lane's notice (in a newspaper) was left, I believe, with Mother. If she has it, I shd like it sent me when W. Channing comes, or by any other good opportunity.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller refers to 'Lane's notice (in a newspaper)' regarding Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which she considers 'the only notice that ever appeared of the book...I thought worth keeping.'