WorkJohn Sterling

“The Onyx Ring," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine”

"The Onyx Ring," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (November 1838–January 1839)

John Sterling (1806–1844) · November 1838–January 1839

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Documented 1839

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 Sarah Helen Whitman

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“Have you read the Onyx Ring in Blackwood and do you remember the "violent and resplendent hour" there described. Mr Emerson thought it too theatrical. I liked it.”

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

She also identifies Sterling as the author of "Crystals from a Cavern" and the poems signed Archaeus, crediting his work as encouragement to her own writing.