WorkWilliam Enfield

Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental

Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental (1785) Inferred

InferredWilliam Enfield's Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental was a standard text that had gone through four American editions by 1824. Fuller's reference to "Geo Enfields Philosophy" indicates her engagement with this natural philosophy text during her time at Groton.

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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.

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1825Institutes of Natural PhilosophyAttested
“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton January 5th. 1825
Explicit first-person 'I study this term' names the specific work and dated term.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”

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

Inferred William Enfield's Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental was a standard text that had gone through four American editions by 1824. Fuller's reference to "Geo Enfields Philosophy" indicates her engagement with this natural philosophy text during her time at Groton.