Author

Mrs. George Lee

Mrs. George Lee is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Essays
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“We were rejoiced when an intelligent lady of Massachusetts made the refined heroine of a little romance select that calling. This lady (Mrs. George Lee)”

The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Mrs. George 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.

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women.

“The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women.”

mentioned

“We were rejoiced when an intelligent lady of Massachusetts made the refined heroine of a little romance select that calling. This lady (Mrs. George Lee)”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women." New-York Daily Tribune, 30 September 1845. · 30 September 1845