Author

James Garth Wilkinson

James Garth Wilkinson is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, all in Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli), and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
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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 →

In Emerson’s letters to Fuller (L-3)

Books Emerson sent or offered, his secondhand reports, and his own references — never counted in Fuller’s totals.

  • 29 August 1847James John Garth Wilkinson, piece preliminary to Swedenborg's Outlines on the InfiniteSuggested · not counted

    Emerson: “which you ought to see. 'Tis much the best piece of criticism on Modern Opinions, especially Transcendentalism, which has been written”

    Work recommended to Fuller · Myerson, letter of 29 August 1847 (page locator provisional)

    Recommendation only; not evidence that Fuller read the piece.

In Fuller’s words

“Margaret saw a good deal of James Garth Wilkinson, who later became prominent as the author of the work entitled The Human Body in its Relation to the Constitution of Man”
The Human Body in its Relation to the Constitution of Man · Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) · 1846

When Fuller engaged with James Garth Wilkinson

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Wilkinson in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

p.188
analyzed · read
“Margaret saw a good deal of James Garth Wilkinson, who later became prominent as the author of the work entitled The Human Body in its Relation to the Constitution of Man”

Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.