Biblical Episode
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“it is waiting like the Mother beside the sepulchre for the resurrection, for all I loved in you is at present dead and buried, only a light from the tomb shines now and then in your eyes.”
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.
“but the woman could no more stay from the foot of the cross, than from the Transfiguration.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“a love that cannot be crucified, show not a perfect sense of what has already been given.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Fuller makes multiple allusions to New Testament passages in close succession: (1) 'love that cannot be crucified' — alludes to the Crucifixion; (2) 'made all things new' — echoes Revelation 21:5 KJV: 'Behold, I make all things new'; (3) 'sit at the right hand of the Father' — echoes the Apostles' Creed and multiple NT passages (Mark 16:19, Hebrews 1:3, etc.); (4) 'descend into the depths of hell' — echoes the descent into Hades tradition.
“I fear, I fear the entrance into Jerusalem may be followed by the sacrifice.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“It was thine to see the child, / Gift of the Messiah dove, / [...] Break upon the "guilty cross." [...] Let me to the tomb repair, / Find the angel watching there [...] Once my heart within me burned / At the lwast whisper of thy voice”
Fuller, Margaret. "Virgin Mother, Mary Mild." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 146.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.