Author

James Martineau

James Martineau is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846–1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1846–1847
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

“Mr. Martineau looks like the over-intellectual, the partially developed man, and his speech confirms this impression. He is sometimes conservative, sometimes reformer, not in the sense of eclecticism, but because his powers and views do not find a true harmony.”
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII. · 1847

When Fuller engaged with James Martineau

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
✦. 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.

1846—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II.”
mentioned
“I am here reminded that I have not spoken of James Martineau, whom I heard at Liverpool.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 September 1846. · 29 September 1846

1847—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII.”
analyzed · read
“Mr. Martineau looks like the over-intellectual, the partially developed man, and his speech confirms this impression.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 January 1847. · 5 January 1847