A Chronology of Fuller’s Reading
A reading life across the archive’s full 1810–1850 scope, arranged in six chapters and drawn from letters, journals, and published work.
These chapters are interpretive: they gloss and group the record rather than reproduce it. For the unglossed archival spine — every dated entry, plotted — see the Lifeline. Here, when she was reading places each entry in the chapter of Fuller’s life when she actually wrote about the work, and what she was reading from shows the historical reach of her sources, from antiquity to her own decade.
Click any chapter above to read its description and the entries Fuller wrote in those years.
259 additional entries sit in posthumous compilations (Memoirs, 1852; Art, Literature, and the Drama, 1869; Recollections, 1936) whose individual letters, journal pages or essays have not yet been pinned to a specific year.