WorkGotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) · 1755
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“E. Galeotti is good in the same way as Minna.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · June 1833
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re248 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1012.txt; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Part of the same continuous reading report as 1297 ('E. Galeotti is good in the same way as Minna'), reflecting her direct assessment after reading.
“E. Galeotti is good in the same way as Minna.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · June 1833
Same sentence as 1298, part of her continuous reading report on the returned Lessing plays.
“F.—Von was fur Tugenden spricht er denn? Minna.—Er spricht von keiner; denn ihn fehlt keine.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re245 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-02 l.4753-4754; tier B; same passage) — counted once here. Two-line German dialogue exchange quoted verbatim from Minna von Barnhelm, a sustained excerpt beyond a single phrase.
“June, 1833. — I return Lessing. I could hardly get through Miss Sampson. E. Galeotti is good in the same way as Minna.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.