WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1839
Manuscripts
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.
“I then read a part of The Laocoon, showing what a work of art was in his view, and what his way of viewing it.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
First-person statement 'I then read a part of The Laocoon' describing an actual reading episode.
“I then read a part of The Laocoon, showing what a work of art was in his view, and what his way of viewing it.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art." Houghton Library, Harvard University.