Biblical Episode
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“if caused by any apparition of the Divine in me I could bless myself like the holy Mother. But like her I long to be virgin. I would fly from the land of my birth.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“The Virgin was made worthy to be the mother of Jesus by her purity. We do not suppose she foresaw intellectually all that was needed for his career.”
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.
“She anticipated for him a life of glory to God, peace and good will to man.”
Inferred The source, although not explicitly named by Fuller, is inferred from the quoted phrase.
“the nations of Christendom might join in a celebration, such as "kings and prophets waited for," and so many martyrs died to achieve, of Christ-Mass.”
Inferred Fuller’s quotation, “kings and prophets waited for,” echoes Luke 10:24 (KJV): “For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them.” The source is inferred from the quoted phrase.
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 dwellers in green pastures and natural students of the stars selected were among men, the holy child, whose life and death ... present the type of excellence”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Fuller alludes to Luke 2:8–20 (the shepherds receiving the angelic announcement and being first to see the Christ child). Author and title inferred.
“now I think I shall live and carry him round myself as I ride on my ass into Egypt. We shant go so mildly as this yet.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.