Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJoanna Baillie

“To Mrs. Siddons" in Fugitive Verses”

"To Mrs. Siddons" in Fugitive Verses (1840) Inferred

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) · 1840

InferredFuller explicitly names Joanna Baillie and quotes from her address poem to Mrs. Siddons (the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons, 1755–1831). The title is inferred because Fuller refers to it as 'address to Mrs.

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Documented 1846

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1832
1836
1844
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Papers on Literature and Art

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“And who, that reads Joanna Baillie's address to Mrs.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Fuller explicitly names Joanna Baillie and quotes from her address poem to Mrs. Siddons (the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons, 1755–1831). The title is inferred because Fuller refers to it as 'address to Mrs. Siddons' rather than naming the collection; the specific poem is identified by the quoted verses.

The title is inferred because Fuller refers to it as 'address to Mrs. Siddons' rather than naming the collection; the specific poem is identified by the quoted verses.