WorkGeorge Henry Lewes

A Biographical History of Philosophy

A Biographical History of Philosophy (1845–1846) Inferred

George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) · 1845–1846

InferredA blotted word in Fuller's letter is identified by Hudspeth as referring to George Henry Lewes, "author of a History of Philosophy"—his Biographical History of Philosophy (4 volumes, 1845–46).

AnalyzedMentioned

Documented 1846

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“a witty french flippant sort of man [...] author of a History of Philosophy, and now writing a life of Goethe”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred A blotted word in Fuller's letter is identified by Hudspeth as referring to George Henry Lewes, "author of a History of Philosophy"—his Biographical History of Philosophy (4 volumes, 1845–46).