Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Thomas More(1478–1535)Inferred

Thomas More is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, all in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

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1846
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

“Perhaps he has gone to the post office to take out letters from his friends in Utopia," thought I. "And the fancied cradle of the American Utopia receded, or rather proceeded, fifty years, at least, into the future.”
Utopia · New-York Daily Tribune · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Thomas More

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

More in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1846—

New-York Daily Tribune

“The Rich Man”
read
“Perhaps he has gone to the post office to take out letters from his friends in Utopia," thought I.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p295

Inferred Fuller's use of 'Utopia' functions here as both a concept and an ironic term for the ideal society she describes. The term derives from Thomas More's Utopia (1516), and as a literary and philosophical concept, it was thoroughly embedded in nineteenth-century discourse. Fuller's usage is allusive rather than a direct citation of More's text.