Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“But if not so, Ceres is well accustomed to wander, seeking the other Magna Dea, and to be refused the cup of milk by the peasant, and to have snatched from her the princely nursling that she would bap”
L-2 [Letter 477, 4 August 1844, To Caroline Sturgis]
“In Greece, Ceres and Proserpine, significantly termed "the great goddesses," were seen seated, side by side...”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Let woman appear in the mild majesty of Ceres, and rudest churls will be willing to learn from her.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“I am to them a divine visitant, and instructive Ceres telling them wonderful tales of foreign customs and even legends of their own saints”
L-2 [Letter 732, 11 July 1848, To Ralph Waldo Emerson]
“I looked on the sculptures of the sitting Ceres and Proserpine the "great goddesses," and knew that time would come with me, when I would not wish to rise from my seat or detain any thing.”
L-2 [Letter 934, undated, To Charles K. Newcomb]
“Miss Fuller had proposed the Grecian Mythology as the subject of the first conversations [...] He saw the oreads, naiads, nereids [...] Prometheus was made the type of Pure Reason; Jupiter, of Will; Juno, the passive side of the same, or Obstinacy; Minerva, Intellectual Power, Practical Reason; Mercury, Executive Power, Understanding; Apollo was Genius, the Sun; Bacchus was Geniality, the Earth's answer.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.