WorkWilliam Howitt

The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany: With Characteristic Sketches of Its Cities and Scenery

The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany: With Characteristic Sketches of Its Cities and Scenery (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842)

William Howitt (1792–1879) · London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842

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Documented 1843

Letters

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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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1843The Rural and Domestic Life of GermanyAttested
“I have read a shallow book Howitt's Germany, shallow, but with items not to be found elsewhere.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · gth May. [1843]
Explicit 'I have read a shallow book Howitt's Germany'.

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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have read a shallow book Howitt's Germany, shallow, but with items not to be found elsewhere.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Fuller names "Howitt's Germany" explicitly and reports having just finished it ("I have read"), with a critical but acknowledging verdict: "shallow, but with items not to be found elsewhere." Hudspeth identified the full title as William Howitt's The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany, a travel account by an English Quaker journalist who lived in Heidelberg.