Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et SociétaireInferred

Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire is documented in Fuller’s letters (1844). One work is named, all in Letter to William H. Channing, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1844
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

“Verily it is a speaking comment on the text Sit still and let things come to thee (if only the inner temple be hallowed more and more by the Presence to receive the gift.)”
Ruth 3:18, King James Bible · Letter to William H. Channing · 1844

When Fuller engaged with Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire

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.

Sociétaire in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1844—

Letter to William H. Channing

read
“Verily it is a speaking comment on the text Sit still and let things come to thee (if only the inner temple be hallowed more and more by the Presence to receive the gift.)”

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

Inferred The phrase is a loose paraphrase of Ruth 3:18 (KJV: "Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall") combined with the broader biblical theme of patient waiting found in Psalms.