WorkPlutarch

Moralia

Plutarch (c. 46 CE–after 119 CE) · c. 100 CE

InferredFuller mentions 'Isis, Diana, &c' by name in connection with the yucca flower's moonlight beauty — these are named mythological figures. The principal literary sources for the form Fuller would have known are Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride (for Isis) and classical sources on Diana/Selene.

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Documented 1840

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

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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1837MoralsPossible
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
Possible: one volume of Plutarch's Morals kept for the summer; possession, not a reading statement. First Plutarch entry in the graded reading events. Fuller to Ralph Waldo Emerson; provenance per Harvey's extraction: letter to Emerson, printed in Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884).

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to William H. Channing(?)

p169

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“How finely it harmonizes with all legends of Isis, Diana, &c!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller mentions 'Isis, Diana, &c' by name in connection with the yucca flower's moonlight beauty — these are named mythological figures. The principal literary sources for the form Fuller would have known are Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride (for Isis) and classical sources on Diana/Selene.