WorkWilliam Shakespeare

Othello

Mentioned

Documented 1846

Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

AttestedConfirmed readingEvidence ↓

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.

undatedOthelloAttested
“His translation of Othello which I glanced at is good for a French man.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
First-person 'which I glanced at' is an explicit (if brief) statement of personally engaging with the specific translation.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1846—

Wiley & Putnam’s Library.

“Wiley & Putnam’s Library.”

mentioned

“Othello’s hair-breadth ‘scapes were nothing to those by this hero in the descent of the cataracts, and many a Desdemona might seriously incline her ear”

Fuller, Margaret. "Wiley & Putnam’s Library." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 April 1846. · 4 April 1846