Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkLydia Maria Child

The Oasis

Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)

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Documented 1835

Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Confirmed reading

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.

  • undatedThe OasisAttested

    “Mrs Child's Oasis- Her descriptions of S. American scenery very pretty”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re497 (Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers), M-015.txt lines 151-155; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Journal reading-log entry documenting a specific just-read work (Child's Oasis) with reaction.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1835—

Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury

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“Mrs Child's Oasis- Her descriptions of S. American scenery very pretty - How would it be to go there. I might establish a school.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury." Houghton Library, Harvard University.