Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Johann Georg von Zimmermann(1728–1795)

Johann Georg von Zimmermann is documented in Fuller’s journals (1840). One work is named, all in Journal 1840, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Journals
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Johann Georg von Zimmermann

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.

Zimmermann in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

Journal 1840

p10
readManuscript page
“A very slight passage in Zimmerman would be my key.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

Inferred Fuller mentions 'a very slight passage in Zimmerman' as her 'key' to a Petrarch project; the work is not named, but Zimmermann's primary and best-known work was On Solitude, which extensively treats Petrarch. Title inferred as On Solitude since no other Zimmermann work is known to engage with Petrarch in a way that matches Fuller's description.