Author

Sophie von La Roche

Sophie von La Roche is documented in Fuller’s published essays and journals (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Journal 1837–1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
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1847
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In Fuller’s words

“De la Roche gives me pleasure; there is in his picture a simple and natural poesy; he is a man who has in his own heart a well of good water”
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XI. · 1847

When Fuller engaged with Sophie von La Roche

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

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

1847—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XI.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XI.”
analyzed · read
“De la Roche gives me pleasure; there is in his picture a simple and natural poesy; he is a man who has in his own heart a well of good water”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XI." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 March 1847. · 31 March 1847

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Journal 1837–1843

M-019.txt p.34-35
“Visit of Frau la Roche with her grand daughter Sophie Osentano (Bettina's Mother ?).”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.

Inferred Biographical anecdote about a visit, unrelated to reading a text.