Author
George Henry Lewes is documented in Fuller’s letters (1846). 2 distinct works are named, all in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“a witty french flippant sort of man [...] author of a History of Philosophy, and now writing a life of Goethe”
Inferred A blotted word in Fuller's letter is identified by Hudspeth as referring to George Henry Lewes, "author of a History of Philosophy"—his Biographical History of Philosophy (4 volumes, 1845–46).
“now writing a life of Goethe, a task for which he must be as unfit as irreligion and sparkling shallowness can make him”
Inferred as Hudspeth identified: Lewes published his Life and Works of Goethe in 1855, but in 1846 the work was still in progress.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.