Author

Charles Wesley(1707–1788)

Charles Wesley is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1820–1846). 4 distinct works are named, most often in Methodism at the Fountain., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Books · Essays
Documented: 1820–1846

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Charles Wesley’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1844Jesus, My Strength, My HopeDemonstrated
“My God, my strength, my hope."... "Bold to take up, firm to sustain, The consecrated cross”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 4th August [1844]
Multiple lines of a Wesley hymn quoted verbatim, a substantial sustained passage.

In Fuller’s words

“I read a hymn which she chooses. Today it was that fine one of Wesley's / 'My God, my strength, my hope.' / Where he expresses such deep desire, for the 'godly fear' 'the sober certainty of waking' good His hymns are all marked by this more searching sense of what is needful. / 'Bold to take up, firm to sustain, / The consecrated cross”

"Jesus, My Strength, My Hope" · Letter to Caroline Sturgis · 1844

When Fuller engaged with Charles Wesley

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

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.

Wesley in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1820—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

read

“William Henry is sitting on the rug singing "Phosannur in de sidest." The little rogue alias student of roguery does this in imitation of us.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller identifies the words "Hosanna in the highest" as being "in the Chorus Anthem" that her family sings. Hudspeth identified this hymn by Charles Wesley appears in Hymns on the Lord's Supper (1745, co-authored with John Wesley), and begins "Hosanna in the highest / To our exalted Savior."

1844—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p219

analyzed · quoted · read

“I read a hymn which she chooses.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p174

quoted · read2 selected passages

“He was fond of that stanza upon these occasions, 'There all the ship's company meet,' &c.”

Inferred The hymn stanza 'There all the ship's company meet' is identified in the text as a favorite hymn of Charles Wesley. The text identifies this as a hymn stanza Charles Wesley 'was fond of' giving out on visits. This passage is quoted from Jackson's Life of Charles Wesley.

The hymn stanza 'There all the ship's company meet' is identified in the text as a favorite hymn of Charles Wesley. The text identifies this as a hymn stanza Charles Wesley 'was fond of' giving out on visits.

“Who but the Holy Ghost can make / A genuine gospel minister, / A bishop bold to undertake / Of precious souls the awful care!”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

1846—

Methodism at the Fountain.

“Methodism at the Fountain.”

quoted · read4 selected passages

“When successful in effecting the spiritual good of the most abject, his feelings rose to rapture.”

“He rode every day (clothed for Winter, even in Summer,) a little horse, grey with age. When he mounted, if a subject struck him, he proceeded to expand and put it in order.”

“There all the ship’s company meet,”

“Who but the Holy Ghost can make A genuine gospel minister, A bishop bold to undertake Of precious souls the awful cure?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Methodism at the Fountain." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 January 1846.