WorkJohn Moore

Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature

Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic

John Moore (1729–1802)

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Documented 1819–1820

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Confirmed reading

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.

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  • 1819ZelucoAttested

    “I have read papa that Zeluco is a very intelligent sensible book therefore as I assure you I have been a very good girl.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819

    Explicit first-person statement 'I have read...that Zeluco is a very intelligent sensible book'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood1record
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1836
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1819—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I have read papa that Zeluco is a very intelligent sensible book therefore as I assure you I have been a very good girl. I beg you will send me "carte blanche" to read Zeluco.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1820—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

mentioned2 selected passages
“You will let me read Zeluco? will you not and no conditions.”
“Thank you for your kind permission to read Zeluco but Mamma will not let me have it till I have recited to Uncle Elisha.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.