1842—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
p103read
“let me have Paracelsus and Ernest when you can.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Author
Capel Lofft, the younger(1806–1873)
Capel Lofft, the younger is documented in Fuller’s letters (1842–1843). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
- Engagement
- AnalyzedReadMentioned
- Present in
- Letters
- Documented
- 1842–1843
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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Capel Lofft, the younger’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- Dated
- 1842Self-FormationAttested
“In an English book I read last year, by Capel Lofft, which, under the somewhat oldmaidish title of Self-Formation, contains free and accurate descriptions of mental life”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · letter dated Cambridge 6th Novr 1843; "In an English book I read last year"
Explicit 'In an English book I read last year, by Capel Lofft'.
In Fuller’s words
“In an English book I read last year, by Capel Lofft, which, under the somewhat oldmaidish title of Self-Formation, contains free and accurate descriptions of mental life, are indicated with a good deal of skill those sharp turns of fate or character when, after preparation of unknown length beneath the soil, an unexpected plant springs up and shadows all the remaining scene.”
When Fuller engaged with Capel Lofft, the younger
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Lofft in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1843—
Letter to Albert H. Tracy
p155analyzed · read
“In an English book I read last year, by Capel Lofft, which, under the somewhat oldmaidish title of Self-Formation, contains free and accurate descriptions of mental life, are indicated with a good deal of skill those sharp turns of fate or character when, after preparation of unknown length beneath the soil, an unexpected plant springs up and shadows all the remaining scene.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.