Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Isaac Taylor(1787–1865)Inferred

Isaac Taylor is documented in Fuller’s letters (1833). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1833
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“I have also talked with you about two chapters in a book called 'Saturday Evening' by the author of Histy of Enthusiasm. If you have ever met with it send your real ideas; the two chapters are 'The Recluse' and 'The few noble.”
Saturday Evening · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1833

When Fuller engaged with Isaac Taylor

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Taylor in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p210
analyzed · read
“I have also talked with you about two chapters in a book called 'Saturday Evening' by the author of Histy of Enthusiasm.”

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

Inferred Fuller describes 'a book called Saturday Evening by the author of Histy of Enthusiasm,' identifying the author through his earlier work A Natural History of Enthusiasm. Hudspeth identified this is Isaac Taylor's Saturday Evening (London, 1832), published anonymously, and Fuller engages critically with specific chapters—'The Recluse' and 'The Few Noble'—summarizing their themes.

Hudspeth identified this is Isaac Taylor's Saturday Evening (London, 1832), published anonymously, and Fuller engages critically with specific chapters—'The Recluse' and 'The Few Noble'—summarizing their themes.

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p196
analyzed · read
“I wish to write some in the style of Saturday evening. By the way you have never answered what I said about that book.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.