Author
Edward Coote Pinkney is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1825–1833). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Edward Coote Pinkney’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Yesterday I took Hood's and Pinkney's poems and Miss Martineau on Scott into the wood.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 27th July 1833
Same dated sentence documents her taking Pinkney's poems to read.
“I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone / A woman of her gentle sex the seeming paragon / To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given, / A form so fair that like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone / A woman of her gentle sex the seeming paragon / To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given, / A form so fair that like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Attributed in the notebook to '“A Health”.
“Yesterday I took Hood's and Pinkney's poems and Miss Martineau on Scott into the wood. I passed three or four hours there reading passages from them and conversing with you about it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified this refers to Edward Coote Pinkney's Poems (Baltimore, 1825), Pinkney's only published collection.