Reading Notebook 1825–1827
pp. 121–123“His letters supplied topics of reflection.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Attributed 'C. B.
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“His letters supplied topics of reflection.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Attributed 'C. B.
“* 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.
“we see that Ormond is being republished at this moment.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
“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.