WorkBettina von Arnim (Brentano)

Correspondence of Bettina Brentano with Goethe

Bettina von Arnim (Brentano) (1785–1859)

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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 reading1839Evidence ↓

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.

Dated
1839(her book, i.e. Goethe's Correspondence with a Child)Attested
“I did not value Bettine so much... I knew Bettine would end in nothing when I read her book.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re69, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re69 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10609; tier A; date taken from this witness; same passage) — counted once here. First-person statement 'when I read her book' explicitly describing reading Bettina's book.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1846—

Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish . . .

“Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish . . .”

mentioned

“The Correspondence of Bettina Brentano with Goethe, commonly called Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child, which has afforded to many minds delight so fresh and peculiar, was published at Lowell by him.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 February 1846. · 12 February 1846