Author
Rahel Levin Varnhagen von Ense is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1841–1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in The Dial, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
“The following remarks are by the celebrated Rahel von Ense, whose discernment as to his works was highly prized by Goethe. / 'Don Quixote and Wilhelm Meister / Embrace one another, Cervantes and Goethe! / Both, using their own clear eyes, vindicated human nature.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The following remarks are by the celebrated Rahel von Ense, whose discernment as to his works was highly prized by Goethe.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p44
Inferred The specific publication is inferred, as Fuller does not cite a title, but the attribution to Rahel is unambiguous.
“Markgraff has been giving sketches of these celebrated personages, Rahel, the intellectual Queen of Berlin, well described by Carlyle in one of the Foreign Reviews some five or six years since, Börne, and Heinrich Heine.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Modern Jews." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 April 1845. · 21 April 1845