Author
William Ware is documented in Fuller’s letters (1837). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had William Ware’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“and the "Letters from Palmyra." This last book disappointed me a little yet pleased me much.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 16th August 1837; "I have read only two English books this summer"
Continuation of the same explicit "I have read only two English books" statement, naming Letters from Palmyra.
“I have read only two English books this summer, Miss Martineau "America," and the "Letters from Palmyra." This last book disappointed me a little yet pleased me much. I think it is less of a failure in the difficult task of fixing up the beautiful antique for modern use than such books as Moore's "Epicurean,”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I have read only two English books this summer, Miss Martineau "America," and the "Letters from Palmyra." This last book disappointed me a little yet pleased me much.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.