Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkWilliam Godwin

Caleb Williams and St. Leon

Caleb Williams and St. Leon, Inferred

William Godwin (1756–1836)

InferredHudspeth footnote 4 identified The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) and St. Leon (1799) as his key novels.

Mentioned

Documented 1840

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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
1840—

Letter to William H. Channing

p171
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“Its sad changes should be written out in Godwin's best manner: such are the themes he loved, as did also Rousseau.”

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

Inferred Hudspeth footnote 4 identified The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) and St. Leon (1799) as his key novels.