Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s books
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“seeing the design of Crawford's Orpheus, and connecting with the circumstance of the American, in Rome, making choice of this subject”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Boston: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“Orpheus was a law-giver by theocratic commission. He understood nature, and made her forms move to his music. He told her secrets in the form of hymns, nature as seen in the mind of God.”
Inferred She explicitly names Orpheus, analyzes his mythological character (law-giver, musician, descender into Hades to rescue Eurydice), names Persephone (R15), and uses the myth as an allegory for the ideal man.
“Must make the sad Persephone his friend.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“the time is come when Eurydice is to call for an Orpheus, rather than Orpheus for Eurydice”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“the interpretation of Bacon upon the legends of the Syren coast.”
Inferred The title is inferred: Fuller paraphrases Bacon's readings of the Sirens and Orpheus without naming the work.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.