Author
Philip Massinger is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and journals (1820–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Amelia Greenwood, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 Philip Massinger’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have read naught save Massinger, Miss Baillie and now and then some of Burns-”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1820]
Explicit first-person statement 'I have read naught save Massinger, Miss Baillie and now and then some of Burns'.
“It is Sunday. I have been reading Messenger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · New Years Day 1843.
Same explicit reading statement covering Duke of Milan.
“I have been reading Messenger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · New Years Day 1843.
Same explicit dated statement 'I have been reading...Duke of Milan' covers this title too.
“We may be permitted to copy, in this connection, the fine plea of Massinger's "Roman Actor." [followed by Paris's speech, Act I scene iii, spanning pp. 107–109]”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I have read naught save Massinger, Miss Baillie and now and then some of Burns”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Hudspeth identified A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1633) as Massinger's best-known comedy.
“I have been reading Massinger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Also reprinted in New Year's Day, 1843. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal January 1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Ford and Massinger have, in this respect, soared to a higher flight of feeling than he.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“We may be permitted to copy, in this connection, the fine plea of Massinger's "Roman Actor." [followed by Paris's speech, Act I scene iii, spanning pp. 107–109]”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.