Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Alexander Young

Alexander Young is documented in Fuller’s letters (1840). One work is named, all in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedRead
Present in
Letters
Documented
1840
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 Alexander Young

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Young in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841

letter_0258.txt, line 5058-5062; note 6
analyzed · read
“a young, publicly styled Reverend, has discharged a paper-pellet from the intellectual stand-point of Charlestown”

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

Inferred Footnote identifies the sermon as Alexander Young's, published as The Church, the Pulpit, and the Gospel