Author

Literary World

Literary World is documented in Fuller’s letters (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1847
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 am obliged to be content with reading your news in the Literary World, of which some numbers have reached Rome. I regret only that signatures are not attached to the pieces there. I recognize the authors of some, but of many not.”
Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck · 1847

When Fuller engaged with Literary World

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. 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.

1847—

Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck

analyzed · read
“I am obliged to be content with reading your news in the Literary World, of which some numbers have reached Rome. I regret only that signatures are not attached to the pieces there.”

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