WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clavigo (Leipzig: Weygand, 1774)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · Leipzig: Weygand, 1774
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Documented 1837
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Manuscripts
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.
“and Clavigo,—thus comprehending samples of all his efforts in poetry”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
Continuation of explicit 'I read' list naming Clavigo.
“Goethe's Herman und Dorothea, Gotz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust, and Clavigo”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
Same dated (1836-37) sentence continuing the specific list of Goethe works read.
“and Clavigo,—thus comprehending samples of all his efforts in poetry, and bringing forward some of his prominent opinions”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Carlos - 'Here also be consistent Clavigo, walk on direct, turn not to the right or left.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from German." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5 (101).
“p1: 'For simpler subjects used a more limited treatment as in Clavigo'; p21: 'Farewell to Freidrich. Goethe sees his own wrath...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“and Clavigo”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.