1837—
Letter to Frederic H. Hedge
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“When you write tell me how you like his Mirabeau.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Author
London and Westminster Review
London and Westminster Review is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1837–1839). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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- 1837–1839
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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
“There is a piece on Music in the last London and Westminster better than that by Dr Park which I showed you. There does not seem to be any deep insight into the secrets of the art, but high cultivation, a very liberal and delicate taste and great descriptive power.”
When Fuller engaged with London and Westminster Review
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Review in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1838—
Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger
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“I read in a year since in the London and Westminster an admirable sketch of Armand Carrel.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
1839—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
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“I recommend to your perusal two articles in the last No. of the Westminster Review on Heloise and Rabel von Ense. Two remarkable women indeed!”
Hudspeth identified this reference as vol. 32 of the London and Westminster Review.
“I studied over parts of Goethe; and read two of Plato's dialogues, and a no of the London and Westminster”
Fuller names "a no of the London and Westminster" as recent reading, referring to a specific issue of this Radical periodical edited by John Stuart Mill, which regularly covered German philosophy and literature aligned with her intellectual interests; the particular issue and article remain unidentified.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
1839—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There is a piece on Music in the last London and Westminster better than that by Dr Park which I showed you.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Fuller names only the periodical ("the last London and Westminster"), not the article title; Hudspeth identified the article as "The Pianoforte," a survey of piano music from Elizabethan England to the nineteenth century.
1839—
Letter to Eugene Fuller
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“I send the London and Westminster, wishing you to read and send it back in the course of a week if poss.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“I read, a year since, in the London and Westminster, an admirable sketch of Armand Carrel.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred While the specific article is unnamed, Fuller highlights how its author emphasized Carrel's practical life experience as beneficial to his literary work, a point that resonated with Fuller's own considerations of lived experience and authorship.