1837—
Letter to Unknown
p278analyzed · read
“Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkFriedrich Schiller
“Das Lied von der Glocke [Song of the Bell]”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) · begun 1791, completed 1799; first published in Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1800
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Documented 1837–1838
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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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- 1836Das Lied von der Glocke (Song of the Bell)Attested
“Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
Part of the same explicit 'I read...Song of the Bell' list.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1838—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
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“wilt thou not find out when she is coming, and send me the Bell”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller requests "the Bell" from Sturgis, which Hudspeth identified as John Sullivan Dwight's translation of Schiller's Lied von der Glocke (Song of the Bell).
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“With more advanced pupils I read, in twenty-four weeks, Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell, besides giving a sort of general lecture on Schiller.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.