Author

Dugald Stewart(1753–1828)

Dugald Stewart is documented in Fuller’s letters (1836). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1836
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 Dugald Stewart’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
  • 1830Work not namedPossiblePosthumous testimony

    “she addresses herself to the study of Fichte and Jacobi, of Brown and Stewart”

    Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · during the 1829-1833 period

    Same dated period narration naming Dugald Stewart specifically.

  • 1836Outlines of Moral PhilosophyAttested

    “and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]

    Same explicit sentence covering Stewart.

When Fuller engaged with Dugald Stewart

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.

Stewart in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p244
read
“dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names "Stewart" explicitly as part of the common-sense Scottish philosophy books she is consulting.