Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Hannah Farnham Sawyer LeeInferred

Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee is documented in Fuller’s letters (1844). One work is named, all in Letter to Arthur B. Fuller, 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

“I send 'yng Lady's friend' and 'Lives of the Painters' thinking they might be of use, but return them to me sometime, as they are presentation copies.”
Historical Sketches of the Old Painters · Letter to Arthur B. Fuller · 1844

When Fuller engaged with Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee

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.

Lee in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1844—

Letter to Arthur B. Fuller

read
“I send 'yng Lady's friend' and 'Lives of the Painters' thinking they might be of use, but return them to me sometime, as they are presentation copies.”

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

Inferred Fuller refers to "Lives of the Painters," identified by Hudspeth as Hannah Farnham Lee's Historical Sketches of the Old Painters, a collection of biographical sketches ranging from antiquity through the Renaissance.