Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Franz Volkmar Reinhard(1801–1851)

Franz Volkmar Reinhard is documented in Fuller’s letters (1835). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1835
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Franz Volkmar Reinhard’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1835Memoirs and Confessions of Francis Volkmar ReinhardAttested

    “So—where was I?— Oh about Reinhard's memoirs—did you, dear "Minister" ever read them for I am going to quote from them”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835

    States she is 'going to quote from' Reinhard's memoirs, indicating the book is in hand for excerpting.

When Fuller engaged with Franz Volkmar Reinhard

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.

Reinhard in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1835—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p219
analyzed · read
“Oh about Reinhard's memoirs—did you, dear "Minister" ever read them for I am going to quote from them for some time— So if you have not read them do so and particy Letter IX and noting what is said therein of the method we should take in examining revelation give me your opinion thereon— Observe the valuable results of his six years patient industry, admire that truly German spirit which produces fruits of such perfect ripeness, those habits of patient investigation, that freedom of spirit joined with candour and humility— [...] Read it and see if it does not affect you as it does me”

Fuller, Margaret. "To James F. Clarke, 1 February 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 219–222. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.