Author

John Francis Tuckerman(1819–1885)

John Francis Tuckerman is documented in Fuller’s letters (1840). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1840
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 John Francis Tuckerman’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
  • 1840Essay-review of Fetis's Biographie universelle des musiciensAttested

    “and Mr Brownson's review containing Frank Tuckerman's lecture. It is boyish and all the materials taken from books”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica plain. 12th July 1840.

    Continuation of the same explicit 'have also read' statement naming Brownson's review/Tuckerman's lecture.

In Fuller’s words

“Mr Brownson's review containing Frank Tuckerman's lecture. It is boyish and all the materials taken from books, but better written than I had expected.”
review essay on Fétis's Biographie universelle des musiciens, in Boston Quarterly Review 3 · Letter to Caroline Sturgis · 1840

When Fuller engaged with John Francis Tuckerman

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.

Tuckerman in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p174
analyzed · read
“Mr Brownson's review containing Frank Tuckerman's lecture. It is boyish and all the materials taken from books, but better written than I had expected.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.