“I am glad you are not quite dissatisfied with the first no. I feel myself how far it is from that eaglet motion I wanted. I suffered in looking it over now.”
Inferred Fuller has read the first number of the Dial and comments on it critically.
Author
The Dial
The Dial is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1840–1846). One work is named, most often in Letters From England., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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- 1840–1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Publication venueFuller published in this periodical, or read and translated from it for the Tribune. It is listed as a venue, not an author; the passages below record where she also read, cited, or discussed it.
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In Fuller’s words
“I have been obliged to stop by a violent attack of headach, and now I am not fit to write any thing good and will only scribble a few lines to send with your proof which Mr R. left with me.”
When Fuller engaged with The Dial
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Dial in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1840—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
p145analyzed · read2 selected passages
“I have been obliged to stop by a violent attack of headach, and now I am not fit to write any thing good and will only scribble a few lines to send with your proof which Mr R. left with me.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
1840—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
p174read2 selected passages
“I want very much to make this no. of the Dial really good.”
“I want very much to make this no. of the Dial really good. I believe there is no secrecy about the prose pieces in the 1st no.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
1844—
Letter to Lydia Francis Child
read
“a little notice in The Dial, but it may not have met your eye in that generally eschewed periodical”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
1846—
Letters From England.
“Letters From England.”mentioned3 selected passages
“I had the pleasure of seeing quotations made from out Boston “Dial” in the address in which the Director of the Liverpool Institute”
“I found that The Dial had been read with earnest interest by some of the best minds in these especially practical regions”
“The Dial, vol. 1, p. 138. October 1840, Musings of a Recluse.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Letters From England." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 September 1846.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
p127analyzed · read
“she edited the "Dial," a quarterly journal, for two years from its first publication in 1840.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.