Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, notebooks, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“I have already got permission to deposit an olive branch on my way to my future Ark.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“you will leave your heaven, you will not only make the lights, the night, the day, and the great sea but in the least creeping thing will harmonize love and express faith in the revolutions of bein...”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“So soon? - O Lord!- Shall the first olive leaf / Make me believe the trial time so brief? / Say, shall I thither fly? - " Thou half / waked dreamer! - no.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Brook Farm, New Year's Eve." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 135.
Inferred Fuller does not name the book or verse but the 'first olive leaf' and the dove image are unmistakable.
“I say, that what is limitless is alone divine, that there was neither wall nor road in Eden, that those who walked there lost and found their way just as we did, and that all the gain from the Fall was that we had a wagon to ride in.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Let the missionary, instead of preaching to the Indian, preach to the trader who ruins him, of the dreadful account which will be demanded of the followers of Cain”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“of whom the Avenger will not fail yet to demand, "Where is thy brother?”
Inferred The source of the quotation is identified by Fuller as "the Avenger," a circumlocution for God.
“Here each man has before him the choice of Esau ? each may defraud a long succession of souls of their princely inheritance.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Things are still in that state when ten just men may save the city.”
Inferred Fuller alludes to Genesis 18:32 (King James Version), where Abraham intercedes with God to spare Sodom if ten righteous men are found there: "And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“The severe nation which taught that the happiness of the race was forfeited through the fault of a woman, and showed its thought of what sort of regard man owed her, by making him accuse her on the first question to his God who gave her to the patriarch as a handmaid, and by the Mosaical law, bound her to allegiance like a serf”
Inferred Fuller alludes to the Fall narrative in Genesis (chapters 2–3): Eve eating the forbidden fruit, Adam blaming Eve when questioned by God ('The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree,' Genesis 3:12 KJV), and the Mosaic law's subordination of women.
“At last there were so many Ishmaelites that the rest grew frightened and indignant. They laid the blame on Hagar, and drove her forth into the wilderness.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“Indeed, there is nothing that can possibly check the spirit of murder, but the fear of death.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred The passage about Cain is quoted from the book under review, which Fuller characterizes elsewhere as having 'passages such as the following stand for any thing real in the mind of the writer.' The reference is to Genesis 4:13–14 (KJV: 'And Cain said... The author and title of the Genesis text are inferred.
“When the first Poet worked alone, he paused between the cantos to proclaim, "It is very good.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Quoted phrase 'It is very good' alludes to God's refrain in Genesis 1 (esp.
“Yesterday I saw Beatrice Cinci's prison and the place where she was tortured so long and never blinded. There is, undoubtedly foundation for the story of a curse laid on Eve.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“He is the modern Lot's wife and now no more a living soul, but cold pillar of the Past.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“As was Eve, at first, I suppose every mother is delighted by the birth of a man-child.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“But such as Jacob's temples blest / While I do rest my soul advance;”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).
Inferred Browne's night-prayer poem (embedded in Religio Medici Part II) alludes to Jacob's dream at Bethel (Genesis 28:10–22), in which Jacob sleeps with a stone for a pillow ('temples') and dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven with angels ascending and descending.