Author

George Frederick Simmons(1814–1855)

George Frederick Simmons is documented in Fuller’s letters (1839). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1839
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had George Frederick Simmons’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1839Review of Hannah Lee's Historical Sketches of the Old PaintersAttested

    “G. Simmons's article ... in the last Christian Examiner both of which I think would interest you.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839

    Part of the same enumerated "Have read" list of items from the Christian Examiner in the same letter.

When Fuller engaged with George Frederick Simmons

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
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.

Simmons in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p37
analyzed · read
“G. Simmons's article”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.