Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John Collins Warren(1778–1856)

John Collins Warren is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1846). One work is named, most often in Physical Education . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“The exercising the upper limbs is too much neglected, and it is important to provide the means of bringing them into action, as well to develope their powers, as to enlarge and invigorate the chest”
Physical Education . . . · 1846

When Fuller engaged with John Collins Warren

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe3records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Warren in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

New-York Daily Tribune

“Physical Education” · 1845
excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read
“Physical Education and the Preservation of Health, by John C. Warren. [footnote] [...] 'No,' says Dr.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p116

The footnote at lines 4676-4677 explicitly names "Physical Education and the Preservation of Health, by John C. Warren." Warren (1778–1856) was a prominent Harvard Medical School surgeon.

1846—

Physical Education . . .

“Physical Education . . .”
analyzed · quoted · read5 selected passages
“This Lecture of Dr. Warren is printed in a form suitable for popular distribution, while the high reputation of its author insures it respect.”
“Animals do not drink at the time they eat, but some hours after, and they generally take very small quantities of liquid, compared with that which is used by man.”
“The manner in which children sleep, will readily be acknowledged to be important, yet very little attention is paid to this matter.”
“It has been justly said, that adults as well as children had better employ single instead of double beds; this remark is intended to apply universally.”
“The exercising the upper limbs is too much neglected, and it is important to provide the means of bringing them into action, as well to develope their powers, as to enlarge and invigorate the chest”

Fuller, Margaret. "Physical Education . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 January 1846.