Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Cassandra

Folklore & Mythology Figure

Documented in Fuller’s books

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Representative documentary evidence

1844—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, Boston: Little and Brown; New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1844. Chapter IV, 1844

“Mariana”
read
“she was not one to double her stakes, but rather with Cassandra power to discern early the sure course of the game.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p271

Inferred The subsequent verse, "Whom men love not, but yet regret," is presented as a quotation, but its source has not been identified.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p43
analyzed · read
“the poets producing such ideals as Cassandra, Iphiginia, Antigone, Macaria, where Sibylline priestesses told the oracle of the highest god”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.