Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Letters of S. T. Coleridge

Letters of S. T. Coleridge [collected correspondence] Inferred

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843)

InferredFuller quotes Coleridge's phrase "strong mental odour" in quotation marks and attributes it to "Coleridge," defending herself as a schoolmistress who has not yet become intellectually stagnant.

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Documented 1837

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1836
1844
1846
1850
1837—

Letter to Anna Jameson

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“I have not yet acquired that "strong mental odour" that Coleridge speaks of.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller quotes Coleridge's phrase "strong mental odour" in quotation marks and attributes it to "Coleridge," defending herself as a schoolmistress who has not yet become intellectually stagnant.