Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkWalter Savage Landor

Imaginary Conversations

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

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Documented 1841

Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

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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.

  • undated(book, likely Imaginary Conversations - Shakespeare & Spenser)Attested

    “I am disgusted as a whole with this book of Landor The Shakspeare and Spencer, which I have been Reading this morning”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)

    'which I have been Reading this morning' is an explicit, time-specific first-person reading statement.

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
1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p37
excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read
“From Landor — Scalager on the house of Montaigne. Sc. This, I perceive, is the antichamber to your library, here are your every day books. … This is an excellent dialogue.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).