Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Dionysius Lardner(1793–1859)

Dionysius Lardner is documented in Fuller’s letters (1845). One work is named, all in Letter to James Nathan, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Harvard College Library loan

  • 1843 Sep 18·Lardner's Cab.t Cyclop. Haskel's Disc. [?]shelf F…
  • 1843 Dec 11·Lardner's Cab.t Cyp. Brit. Statesmen. 2.shelf 1039

Charged out of Gore Hall on the card of Richard Frederick Fuller, Margaret's brother and then a Harvard senior; women could not borrow in their own name. Household access, not proof of her reading — not counted toward engagements. The full ledger →

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Dionysius Lardner

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Lardner in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p146
analyzed · read
“Dr Lardner writes us quite good business accounts of matters in Paris, but different things from his would strike you.”

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

Inferred Fuller reads Dixi Lardner's Paris dispatches in the New-York Daily Tribune, signed 'P. R.', and comments that he writes 'quite good business accounts' of Parisian matters, though she anticipates Nathan would interpret events differently.