Author

Elizabeth Oakes Smith(1806–1893)

Elizabeth Oakes Smith is documented in Fuller’s letters (1849). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to Ellen Fuller Channing, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1849
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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

“then came Mrs Edgworth, Mrs Smith. I became a coward, a caretaker not only for the morrow, but impiously faithless twenty or thirty years ahead.”
Letter to Ellen Fuller Channing · 1849

When Fuller engaged with Elizabeth Oakes Smith

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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.

1849—

Letter to Ellen Fuller Channing

p292
mentioned
“then came Mrs Edgworth, Mrs Smith. I became a coward, a caretaker not only for the morrow, but impiously faithless twenty or thirty years ahead.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.