WorkPlato
Crito (c. 399–395 BCE)
Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE) · c. 360 BCE
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Documented 1833
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.
“Crito" I have read only once, but like it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re566 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1012.txt; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'Crito I have read only once, but like it.'
“June 3, 1833.—I part with Plato with regret...Eutyphron is excellent...'Crito' I have only read once...The 'Apology' I deem only remarkable...I was much affected by Phaedo”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · June 3, 1833
Dated journal entry with explicit reading statements: 'I have only read once' and detailed reactions to each Plato dialogue.
“Criton I have only read once but like it I have not got it in my head tho' so clearly as the others”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“Crito" I have read only once, but like it. I have not got it in my heart though, so clearly as the others.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.