Author
Mary Somerville is documented in Fuller’s published essays. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Woman-Her Sphere and Education., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 →
No datable encounters with Somerville, Mary have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
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.
“Since Somerville has achieved so much, will any young girl be prevented from seeking a knowledge of the physical sciences”
Also reprinted in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Woman-Her Sphere and Education." New-York Daily Tribune, .