WorkBenjamin 'Ben' Jonson

“Underwoods”

Underwoods (1640), in Works (London, 1717) Inferred

Benjamin 'Ben' Jonson (1572–1637) · 1640

InferredFuller names Ben Jonson as one of the authors she read in "little bits,", she mentions in another letter (written the same day to Emerson) that she retained "one of Ben Jonson with Underwoods" from Emerson's library, suggesting she was reading from this particular volume.

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Documented 1839

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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)

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p59

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“little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson”

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

Inferred Fuller names Ben Jonson as one of the authors she read in "little bits,", she mentions in another letter (written the same day to Emerson) that she retained "one of Ben Jonson with “Underwoods”" from Emerson's library, suggesting she was reading from this particular volume.