Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkPeter Abelard; Heloise

Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Peter Abelard; Heloise (c. 1100–1163)

Mentioned

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

No datable encounters with Abelard, Peter; Heloise have been catalogued yet.

Undated

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

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“My mother was a Calvinist, very strict, but she was always reading 'Abelard and Eloisa,' and crying over it.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hudspeth identified this likely as an edition of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise translated by John Hughes, which after 1775 included Pope's heroic epistle "Eloisa to Abelard." The reading is attributed to the mother, not to Fuller herself.