Author
Richard Whately is documented in Fuller’s letters (1838). One work is named, most often 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 Richard Whately’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Whately's Rhetoric is what I use. I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit to myself.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838
"I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit" is an explicit reading statement.
“Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
Part of the same enumerated reading list in the same sentence ("Whately's Rhetoric").
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Whately's Rhetoric is what I use. I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit to myself.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Whately's Rhetoric.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.