Author
Publius Cornelius Tacitus is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1823–1848). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Publius Cornelius Tacitus’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I learn a portion of Tacitus every day, and am writing a translation of Cicero against Cataline.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 18th Dec 1823
Explicit first-person statement 'I learn a portion of Tacitus every day'.
“Two in studying Tacitus and reading French with my beloved brother.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
"studying Tacitus and reading French" is an explicit statement of active study/reading.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I learn a portion of Tacitus every day”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred The specific work is not identified; in the early 1820s American school context, the Annals or Germania were standard Latin texts, but Fuller does not specify which work she is studying.
“Two in studying Tacitus and reading French with my beloved brother.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names Tacitus as an author she is studying alongside French reading with her brother in 1831, though she does not specify which of his works—the major ones available to her included Annals, Histories, Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus.
“just as the banner was ready to unfold its young glories in the home of Horace, Virgil and Tacitus”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIX." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 January 1848. · 29 January 1848