WorkThomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh (Boston: James Munroe, 1836; first serialized Fraser's Magazine, 1833-34)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · serialized in Fraser's Magazine, November 1833 – August 1834
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Documented 1834–1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Books
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I got a volume of Frazer's Mag and read all the Sartors I could find”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
Explicit 'read all the Sartors I could find.'
“I have read, too, Heyne's letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re658 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6922-6923; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Same explicit list sentence: 'I have read... Sartor Resartus once.'
“I got a volume of Frazer's Mag and read all the Sartors I could find”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Sartor Resartus once”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Fuller names Sartor Resartus explicitly; Hudspeth notes she had read it serialized in Fraser's Magazine (1833–34) and may have reread it in the Boston edition sponsored by Emerson and published by James Munroe in 1836.
“if Carlyle's Miscellanies are to be published by subscription, as, I believe, the Sartor was”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Nothing is truer than the Wordsworthian creed, on which Carlyle lays such stress, that we need only look on the miracle of every day, to sate ourselves with thought and admiration every day.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Title listed as Inferred because she names Carlyle but not a specific work.
Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (serialized 1833–34 in Fraser's Magazine; book form Boston 1836, London 1838) is the primary locus of this emphasis: Teufelsdröckh's doctrine of the 'Natural Supernatural' — that the miraculous is woven into the everyday — is precisely the doctrine Fuller attributes to him.
“Poor Laura! Lucky for her that her poet had already got her safely canonized beyond the reach of this Teufelsdrockh vulture.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Fuller calls Carlyle "this Teufelsdrockh vulture," using the name of the fictional philosopher-protagonist from Carlyle's Sartor Resartus as a witty epithet. Her use of this name to describe Carlyle demonstrates intimate familiarity with the work and its protagonist's extravagant, dyspeptic voice.
“Consider that a part implies the whole, as the everlasting No the everlasting Yes”
Inferred Phrase 'the everlasting No the everlasting Yes' alludes to the famous paired chapters 'The Everlasting No' (Book II, ch.
“Biography is by nature the most universally profitable, universally pleasant of all things; especially biography of distinguished individuals." [Opinion of the sagacious Hofrath Henshrecke, as quoted in Sartor Resartus.]”
The fictional Hofrath Henshrecke is a character in Sartor Resartus; Fuller attributes the quote directly to Carlyle's text.
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
“[Opinion of the sagacious Hofrath Henshrecke, as quoted in Sartor Itesartus.]”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p53
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p53; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“Sartor Resartus once”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.