Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Andrews Norton(1786–1853)

Andrews Norton is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1840–1845). One work is named, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1840–1845
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 world is somewhat occupied with Mr Norton and Mr Ripley. The seeming mildness of Mr N's late rejoinder gives him at present the advantage, but Mr R. comes out again this week.”
A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity · Letter to Frederic H. Hedge · 1840

When Fuller engaged with Andrews Norton

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
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.

Norton in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p113
analyzed · read
“The world is somewhat occupied with Mr Norton and Mr Ripley. The seeming mildness of Mr N's late rejoinder gives him at present the advantage, but Mr R. comes out again this week.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller tracks the Norton–Ripley theological controversy closely, noting how Norton's seeming mildness gives him tactical advantage while Ripley prepares another response; as Hudspeth identified that Norton's A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity (1839) sparked this exchange.

1845—

The Liberty Bell for 1845.

“The Liberty Bell for 1845.”
mentioned
“As frontispiece, it has a portrait of WENDELL PHILLIPS, one of the most eloquent leaders of the party, etched by J. Andrews from a Daguerreotype by Southworth”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Liberty Bell for 1845." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 January 1845. · 7 January 1845