Author

Rachel Russell(1636–1723)

Rachel Russell is documented in Fuller’s books (1845). One work is named, all in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Books
Documented: 1845

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

“I have reserved for the last the life of Lady Russell... I bought the life and letters of Lady Russell, in the year 1775, and sent it to your grandmother, with an express intent and desire, that she should consider it a mirror in which to contemplate herself”

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell · Woman in the Nineteenth Century · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Rachel Russell

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

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.

Russell in Fuller’s reading world

Letters of Lady Rachel RussellInferred1845

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p130

mentioned

“I have reserved for the last the life of Lady Russell...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named as 'Lady Russell' and 'the life of Lady Russell'; John Adams Sr.'s letter about her biography cited. John Adams Sr.'s letter (cited as Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, vol. i. p. 246) quotes him sending Lady Russell's life and letters to his wife as a model.