Author

Philip Sidney

Philip Sidney is documented in Fuller’s books. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Books

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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 Philip Sidney

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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mentioned

“Thus now. In the country of Sidney and Milton, the metropolis is a den of wickedness, and a stye of sensuality”

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

Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to Philip Sidney — “Thus now. In the country of Sidney and Milton, the metropolis is a den of wickedness, and a stye of sensuality” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1841—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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mentioned

“There is a medium somewhere. Philip Sidney found it; others had it found for them by fate.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to Philip Sidney — “There is a medium somewhere. Philip Sidney found it; others had it found for them by fate.” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.