WorkHarriet Martineau
Society in America (London: Saunders and Otley, 1837; 3 vols.)
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) · London: Saunders and Otley, 1837; 3 vols.
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Documented 1837–1838
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters
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.
“I have read only two English books this summer, Miss Martineau "America," and the "Letters from Palmyra.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 16th August 1837; "I have read only two English books this summer"
"I have read only two English books this summer, Miss Martineau 'America'" is an explicit reading statement.
“I have read only two English books this summer, Miss Martineau "America," and the "Letters from Palmyra.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I got the book as soon as it came out,—long before I received the copy endeared by your handwriting,—and devoted myself to reading it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I am not without my dreams and hopes as to the education of women.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller dismisses her own educational plans as "not at all of the Martineau class," indicating familiarity with Harriet Martineau's published work on women's social and educational condition.
“Immediately after reading Miss Martineau's book on America, Margaret felt bound, in honour, to write her a letter”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.