Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkFrederic Henry Hedge

“[Essay on perfectibility of the human race, venue unidentified], Essay on Swedenborg”

Frederic Henry Hedge (1805–1890)

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Documented 1834

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1820
1832
1836
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1846
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1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

p20, p26
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“8th March Henry Hedge on the perfectibility of the human race — I do not think he allows quite enough for the reaction of institutions on the publick mind… H. Hedge on Swedenborg.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

The perfectibility article may be an unidentified early piece; the Swedenborg essay may be an unpublished or limited-circulation essay. Fuller names Frederic Henry Hedge (1805–1890) twice in connection with two essays: (1) 'on the perfectibility of the human race' — this is not Hedge's famous 1833 Christian Examiner article on Coleridge; it may be an unpublished lecture or essay Fuller read in manuscript, or an article in a periodical not yet identified; (2) 'on Swedenborg' — likewise unidentified in published form.