WorkThomas Carlyle

Chartism

Chartism (London: James Fraser, 1839; American ed

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · London: James Fraser, 1840

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Documented 1840–1843

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist2records
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Did I not leave at your house my copy of Chartism you gave me, and, if so, will you send it me? when the proofs come.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“He ends as he began; as he did in Chartism. Everything is very bad. You are fools and hypocrites, or you would make it better.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“He ends as he began; as he did in Chartism.”

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

In this passage, Fuller directly references Thomas Carlyle's Chartism (1839), drawing a comparison that underscores her familiarity with his preceding work and informs the editors' identification of this title.