Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Diodorus Siculus(c. 90–c. 30 BCE)

Diodorus Siculus is documented in Fuller’s letters (1844). One work is named, all in Letter to Richard F. Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1844
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Diodorus Siculus

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.

Siculus in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1844—

Letter to Richard F. Fuller

p228
read
“Your letter was sent to Dr W. He has found the vol. of Diodorus.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller had apparently loaned a volume of Diodorus Siculus or asked Robert Wesselhoeft (a German homeopathic physician in the Transcendentalist circle, identified in Hudspeth's notes) to locate one. Hudspeth identified that Diodorus Siculus (fl.