Author

Ann Radcliffe(1764–1823)

Ann Radcliffe is documented in Fuller’s letters and books (1831–1843). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement: ReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Books
Documented: 1831–1843

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

“If you have not seen Mr Alston's new picture should you not be charmed to go with me? I hear tis seeable at Miss Scollays for some days to come.”

The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1831

When Fuller engaged with Ann Radcliffe

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

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.

Radcliffe in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1831—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p182

read

“If you have not seen Mr Alston's new picture should you not be charmed to go with me? I hear tis seeable at Miss Scollays for some days to come.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the painting as Washington Allston's Spavento's Vision of the Bloody Hand, based on Ann Radcliffe's The Italian; Fuller and Clarke are viewing the Allston painting, which derives from Radcliffe's Gothic novel, and her invitation implies familiarity with the novel that inspired it.

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read

“sometimes it is "a room in the Castle of Löwenstein, long disused," à la Radcliffe, sometimes "a deserted kitchen.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller uses the phrase 'à la Radcliffe' to characterize the Gothic atmosphere of a 'room in the Castle of Löwenstein, long disused' ? evoking the Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe as a generic touchstone for atmospheric dread in crumbling aristocratic settings