“Mrs Willard’s Travels _ Now there’s a woman most comfortably conceited _ She makes the Lafayettes appear as ridiculous as she can blackens the fame of Me de Genlis and is very eloquent about the small literati she meets.”
Author
Emma Hart Willard(1787–1870)
Emma Hart Willard is documented in Fuller’s journals. One work is named, all in Journal Fragments, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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In Fuller’s words
“Mrs Willard’s Travels _ Now there’s a woman most comfortably conceited _ She makes the Lafayettes appear as ridiculous as she can blackens the fame of Me de Genlis and is very eloquent about the small literati she meets.”
When Fuller engaged with Emma Hart Willard
No datable encounters with Willard, Emma Hart have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Willard in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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Journal Fragments
p. 45“I mean to read her book about education though I see tis the old song, cultivate the reasoning powers &c”
Inferred Fuller says ‘I mean to read her book about education’ immediately after criticizing Mrs Willard’s Travels; Willard was best known for her advocacy of women’s education. Fuller states intention to read Willard’s book on education but has not yet done so;
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments." Houghton Library, Harvard University.