1842—
A Credo
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“It wandered with Osiris.”
Fuller, Margaret. "A Credo." Unbound pages, May 1842. Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 97.
Osiris
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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1843—
On Beethoven
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“Extract made by Taylor from Plutarch's Isis and Osiris with regard to the Sistrum.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Beethoven." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
1845—
Letter to James Nathan
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“By the way, I wish much I had told you the story of Isis and Osiris. It is like your religion. But a time may come.”
Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.
Inferred The phrase "It is like your religion" alludes to Nathan's Jewish faith, suggesting a parallel between Egyptian death-and-resurrection mythology and Jewish theological themes.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“Her general idea was, that, upon the Earth-worship and Sabaeanism of earlier ages, the Grecian genius acted to humanize and idealize, but, still, with some regard to the original principle.”
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.