WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1822; published as part 6 of Aus meinem Leben, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1822
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Documented 1833
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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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.
“I have read nothing,—to signify,—except Goethe's "Campagne in Frankreich.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 20 May 1833]
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re354 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1017.txt; tier A; same passage); re391 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-02 l.5000-5003; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have read nothing... except Goethe's Campagne in Frankreich.'
“am now perusing Kunst and Alterthum and Campagne in Frankreich.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th July. 1833
Same sentence as 1312, explicit 'am now perusing... Campagne in Frankreich.'
“I have read nothing (to signify) except Goethe's Campagne in Frankreich- Have you looked through it and do you remember his intercourse with the Wertherian Plessing- That tale pained me exceedingly- We cry Help- help and there is no Help- in man at least.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“I have read nothing,—to signify,—except Goethe’s ‘Campagne in Frankreich.’ Have you looked through it, and do you remember his intercourse with the Wertherian Plessing?”
“But his conduct to Plessing and Ohlenschlager shows that to him, also, an appeal would have been vain.”
Inferred Fuller extends her reading of Goethe's autobiographical writings to discuss his conduct toward both Plessing and Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, a Danish writer who met Goethe multiple times between 1805 and 1809.
Fuller, Margaret. Letter 84 ([ca. 20 May 1833]). In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I have with me those works of Goethe which I have not read and am now perusing Kunst and Alterthum and Campagne in Frankreich.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I have read nothing, — to signify, — except Goethe's 'Campagne in Frankreich.' Have you looked through it, and do you remember his intercourse with the Wertherian Plessing?”
She references the author's interactions with specific figures, noting his encounter with "the Wertherian Plessing" and also with "Ohlenschlager." Fuller's direct mention of the title and its contents allows for the confident identification of this work within her reading.
“am now engaged upon 'Kunst and Alterthum,' and 'Campagne in Trankreich.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.