Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Hera (Juno)

Folklore & Mythology Figure

Documented in Fuller’s letters, manuscripts, memoirs

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

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Tantalus

Representative documentary evidence

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

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“I wish you would ask me to explain the difference, the Greeks made between the moon as Hecate and as Diana, and the allusions to the girdle of Apollo, and at the conclusion — to Tantalus; these are beautiful things in the Greek mythology, which you will appreciate.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“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.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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On Friendship

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“in the figures on antique gems and bas-reliefs of meetings between the gods, it is yours I find, by far they present me another with the fall flower of being rather than grow together.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Friendship." Unbound pages, undated. Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 96.