WorkLudwig Tieck

“Der blonde Eckbert" ("Blond Eckbert"), in Volksmärchen; also collected in Phantasus”

Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853) · Berlin: Carl August Nicolai, 1797

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Documented 1841

Letters

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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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1836PhantasusAttested
“parts of Tieck's Phantasus, and nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
Continuing the same explicit reading list, 'parts of Tieck's Phantasus.'
1837PhantasusPossiblePosthumous testimony
“parts of Tieck's Phantasus”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
Same dated (1836-37) passage naming Tieck's Phantasus specifically.

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

p213

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“Tieck who has embodied so many Runic secrets explained to me what I have often felt when he tells of the poor changeling child when turned from the door of her adopted home she sat down on a stone and felt such a pity for herself that she wept.”

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

Hudspeth identified: 'Fuller refers to Ludwig Tieck's "Blonde Eckbert," Fuller refers to two specific elements of the story: (1) the 'poor changeling child' who weeps on a stone when turned from her adopted home — this is Bertha in the tale; (2) 'the wonderful bird singing in the wild forest' — the magic bird that Bertha stole and that sings a distinctive song.