WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1845
Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“Within the year, she had read Goethe's Faust, Tasso, Iphigenia, Hermann and Dorothea, Elective Affinities, and Memoirs”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · within the year [1832]
Specific dated memoir claim listing exact Goethe works Fuller read 'within the year' (1832).
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
Continuation of explicit 'I read' list naming Iphigenia.
“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.
“When a bad man’s brain shall give birth to an Iphigenia, a Clara, a Mignon, a Macaria, you may pluck pomegranates from Plymouth Rock, and reap corn on the shores of the Sahara.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from the German." New-York Daily Tribune, 14 March 1845. · 14 March 1845