WorkGotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nathan der Weise: Ein dramatisches Gedicht in fünf Aufzügen (Berlin: Voß, 1779)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) · Berlin: Voß, 1779
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Documented 1836–1837
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Notebooks
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.
“Lessing's Nathan, Minna, Emilia Galeotti; parts of Tieck's Phantasus, and nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
Continuing the same first-person curriculum account ('I read') naming Lessing's Nathan.
“From Lessing. / Traun, / Da mussen Herz und Kopf sich lange zanken [...] Der grosse Mann braucht überall viel Boden [...] Tempel Herr. Nathan!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
“Lessing's Nathan, Minna, Emilia Galeotti”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Lessing's Nathan, Minna, Emilia Galeotti”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.