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“Man the Reformer”

"Man the Reformer" (lecture, 25 January 1841; published in The Dial 1, April 1841)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · lecture, 25 January 1841; published in The Dial 1, April 1841

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Documented 1841

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)

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Letter to William H. Channing

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“I went last week to hear Mr E. lecture on Reform. I had made an extract from this for you, but he has now resolved to publish it in the Dial.”

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

Hudspeth identified: the lecture was published in Dial 1 (April 1841):523-38.