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WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Protest," Lecture 6 in "Human Life" series”

"Protest," Lecture 6 in "Human Life" series (1838–39)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · 1838–39

InferredFuller alludes to Emerson's lecture "Protest," the sixth in his "Human Life" series delivered in Boston in 1838–39, as Hudspeth identified; she missed the lecture while ill at Groton and asked a friend for news of it, demonstrating her engagement with the intellectual event through her circle.

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Documented 1839

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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)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“Tell, too, about Mr E's Protest.”

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

Inferred Fuller alludes to Emerson's lecture "Protest," the sixth in his "Human Life" series delivered in Boston in 1838–39, as Hudspeth identified; she missed the lecture while ill at Groton and asked a friend for news of it, demonstrating her engagement with the intellectual event through her circle.