Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Adam Möhler

Symbolism; or, Exposition of the Doctrinal Differences between Catholics and Protestants

Johann Adam Möhler (1796–1838)

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1843—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Margaret was reading, in these weeks, the Four Books of Confucius, the Desatir, some of Taylor's translations from the Greek, a work on Scandinavian Mythology, Moehler's Symbolism, Fourier's Noveau Monde Industriel, and Landor's Pentameron”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.