Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkDorothea Lynde Dix

Meditations for Private Hours

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887)

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Documented 1842

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1842—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I will have them sent to you and the little prayer book also. If you do not receive the latter, it will be because I could not get it, not because I have forgotten your wish.”

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

Hudspeth's notes and Fuller's own reference to "Dorothea Dix" in a related letter confirm the author as Dorothea Lynde Dix, the religious writer and future mental-health reformer, whose Meditations for Private Hours was published in 1828 and frequently reprinted.