Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)(1783–1859)Inferred

Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) 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 “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
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 Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)

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.

Owenson in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p187
read
“I could be sentimental quite a la Morgan about it—”

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

Inferred Fuller refers to "Lady Morgan" as a byword for sentimental style, saying she "could be sentimental quite a la Morgan." Hudspeth identified two candidate works by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): Dramatic Scenes from Real Life and The Wild Irish Girl, suggesting Fuller had probably read one of them, though no specific title is named.