WorkCharles Brockden Brown

Ormond; or, The Secret Witness

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810)

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Documented 1826–1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)1record
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1826—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 121–123
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“His letters supplied topics of reflection.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'C. B.

1844—

New-York Daily Tribune

“Brown's Novels” · 1846
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“* Ormond, or the Secret Witness; Wieland, or the Transformation; by Charles Brockden Brown.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p83

Fuller's explicit mention of Constantia by name ("sit down with thy Constantia to the meal and water on which she sustained her full and thoughtful existence") suggests a direct engagement with Maria Edgeworth's novel Ormond, one of two novels named in the footnote as the subject of the review.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p143
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“we see that Ormond is being republished at this moment.”

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

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1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p66
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“You did not like my sombre and powerful Or- mond, — though this is superior to Ormond in every respect”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.