Author

William Motherwell(1797–1835)

William Motherwell is documented in Fuller’s letters (1833). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1833
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 →

When Fuller engaged with William Motherwell

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Motherwell in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p187
analyzed · read
“I like the review of Mr Motherwell (odious rustick name) better than his poetry though some of that pleased me too—”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Hudspeth's notes identify Motherwell as a Scottish poet whose Poems, Narrative & Lyrical was reviewed in that issue.