Author
Mrs. Ross is documented in Fuller’s letters (1819). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 Mrs. Ross’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation. Do not let the name novel make you think it is either trifling or silly.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819
Explicit first-person statement 'I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation'.
“I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation. Do not let the name novel make you think it is either trifling or silly. A great deal of sentiment a great deal of reasoning is contained in it. In other words it is a moral-novel.”
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 have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation. Do not let the name novel make you think it is either trifling or silly.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
The novel was published in London in 1819 with an American edition in New York the same year; the author is identified only as Mrs. Ross in available sources.