Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John Whitaker(1776–1847)Inferred

John Whitaker is documented in Fuller’s letters (1824). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1824
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 John Whitaker

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Whitaker in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1824—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

p132
read
“I played "Mary list awake," Bruce's address to his army,"—and "Oh this is the spot.”

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

Inferred Fuller names "Mary list awake," a piano piece she played, identified through the Library of Congress catalog as "Mary Mary list awake a favorite ballad" with music by John Whitaker and text attributed to Leigh Hunt, published around 1818-1821.