Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkWashington Allston

Lady reading a Valentine

Washington Allston (1779–1843)

Mentioned

Documented 1845

Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1845—

St. Valentine’s Day—Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane.

“St. Valentine’s Day—Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane.”
mentioned
“When but a child, I saw Allston’s picture of the “Lady reading a Valentine,” and the mild womanliness of the picture, so remote from passion”

Fuller, Margaret. "St. Valentine’s Day—Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 February 1845. · 22 February 1845