Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

North American Review

North American Review is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and manuscripts (1834–1846). One work is named, most often in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
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Letters · Books · Essays · Manuscripts
Documented
1834–1846

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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

“The North American was once the best. While under the care of Edward Everett, himself a host in extensive knowledge, grace and adroitness in applying it... it boasted more force, more life, a finer scope of power. But now, though still exhibiting ability and information upon special points, it is entirely deficient in great leadings”
Papers on Literature and Art · 1846

When Fuller engaged with North American Review

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed2records
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York3records
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)1record
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Review in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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analyzed · readManuscript page
“Immediately after I read an article in N.A. Review which though much less eloquent suited me better. Here was indeed what I oft have thought but ne'er so well expressed.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Review' which suited her better than Hedge's piece on perfectibility, but she does not name the author or specific article.

The author and article are unidentified.

1835—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p226
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“Mr B's attack on Brutus in the N.A. Review”

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

1837—

Letter to Harriet Martineau

p307
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“The opinion of the majority you will find expressed in a late number of the North American Review.”

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

1845—

America and the American People . . .

“America and the American People . . .”
mentioned
“We recommend it to the North American Review for praise; that will be but fair requital for Von Raumer’s civility.”

Fuller, Margaret. "America and the American People . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 December 1845. · 4 December 1845

1845—

The Modern Jews.

“The Modern Jews.”
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“The last number of the North American Review gives a very interesting sketch of the present situation of the ‘chosen people,’ still a host, though but a remnant.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Modern Jews." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 April 1845. · 21 April 1845

1845—

The North American Review.

“The North American Review.”
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“The last number of the North American Review contains two very interesting articles.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845. · 13 January 1845

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p109
analyzed · read2 selected passages
“Since the above was written, we see an article on the Exhibition in the North American Review for April, 1840.”

This is a footnote added when the piece was reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), indicating Fuller had read or seen this article after her original 1840 publication.

“The North American was once the best. While under the care of Edward Everett, himself a host in extensive knowledge, grace and adroitness in applying it...”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p161
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“I have read all Jefferson's letters, the North American, the daily papers, &c., without end.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred In this passage, Margaret Fuller alludes to "the North American," a significant reference to the North American Review.