Author
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, journals, and reading notebooks (1843–1845). One work is named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Read for the 1843 western tour
Named among the books Fuller consulted for her western journey, and discussed in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.
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 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Margaret quotes from Mrs. Schoolcraft and from Mrs. Grant passages which assert that this inferiority does not run through the whole life of an Indian woman”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · Summer on the Lakes, summer 1843
Biographer reports a specific documented instance in Summer on the Lakes (1843) where Fuller quotes Schoolcraft, a concrete dated episode of engagement with the source.
“By the premature death of Mrs. Schoolcraft was lost a mine of poesy, to which few had access, and from which Mrs. Jameson would have known how to coin a series of medals for the history of this ancient people.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Schoolcraft's Algic Researches is a valuable book, though a worse use could hardly have been made of such fine material.”
Attribution: credited here to Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who supplied and in large part authored the Ojibwe tales; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft compiled, edited and published Algic Researches (1839) under his own name.
“it is obvious, that these tribes possess great power that way, if only from the fables taken from their stores, by Mr. Schoolcraft.”
Attribution: credited here to Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who supplied and in large part authored the Ojibwe tales; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft compiled, edited and published Algic Researches (1839) under his own name.
“By the premature death of Mrs. Schoolcraft was lost a mine of poesy, to which few had access, and from which Mrs.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“Those before us appear to be written down with a more simple fidelity than those in the Algic Researches.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Oneota, or The Red Race of America . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 February 1845. · 12 February 1845
Attribution: credited to Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who supplied and in large part authored the Ojibwe tales; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft compiled, edited and published Algic Researches (1839) under his own name.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“What she learnt from Mrs / Schoolcraft. / Position of Mrs S. How much / was lost to the world which knew / not how to prize her.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.
Inferred Schoolcraft' — Jane Johnston Schoolcraft — in connection with what Jameson learned from her; the published record of Ojibwe materials from the Schoolcraft circle is Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's Algic Researches (1839), which drew substantially on Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's work.
Attribution: credited here to Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who supplied and in large part authored the Ojibwe tales; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft compiled, edited and published Algic Researches (1839) under his own name.
“it shows that Mrs Schoolcraft's account / has foundation, & that woman holds / her place with the Indian [illegible].”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook 1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (90); Box 6.
Inferred Fuller refers to 'Mrs Schoolcraft's account' in the context of reading Catlin on the status of Indian women. 'Mrs Schoolcraft' most likely refers to the publications of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, whose wife Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842) contributed extensively to his Algic Researches (1839). Fuller elsewhere engages with the Schoolcraft material in Summer on the Lakes (1843).
Attribution: credited here to Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who supplied and in large part authored the Ojibwe tales; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft compiled, edited and published Algic Researches (1839) under his own name.