Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s books, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“Only a Theseus could conquer before he wed the Amazonian Queen.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Fuller alludes to the Greek myth of Theseus conquering Hippolyta (or Antiope), queen of the Amazons, before making her his wife.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“And if a Theseus so forsake / Is there no god will pity take / On the sad maiden motherless / On the lost maiden fatherless, / A widowed bride more comfortless.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Poems." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.