Author
William Francis Lynch is documented in Fuller’s letters (1850). One work is named, all in Letter to Emelyn Story, 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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had William Francis Lynch’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea, a book interesting for its subject”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline); 'these few evenings past'
Explicit dated statement: 'These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea'.
“These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea, a book interesting for its subject and as showing the resources for action and the barrenness of thought of the American (so called practical) man in our days.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea, a book interesting for its subject and as showing the resources for action and the barrenness of thought of the American (so called practical) man in our days.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.