Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkRichard Baxter

The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Richard Baxter (1615–1691)

Mentioned

Documented 1845

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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

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

Letter to William H. Channing

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“She was a picture of primitive piety as she sat, holding the "Saints Rest" in her hand, with her bowed trembling figure and her emphatic nods and her bright sweet blue eyes.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Fuller names 'Saints Rest' as the book her grandmother was holding during Fuller's last visit to her, which Hudspeth identified as Richard Baxter's Saint's Everlasting Rest (first published London, 1650).