WorkRichard Whately
Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (London: John Murray / Oxford: John Parker, 1828; Boston: James Monroe, 1832)
Richard Whately (1787–1863) · London: John Murray / Oxford: John Parker, 1828; Boston: James Monroe, 1832
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Documented 1838
Letters
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.
“Whately's Rhetoric is what I use. I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit to myself.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838
"I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit" is an explicit reading statement.
“Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
Part of the same enumerated reading list in the same sentence ("Whately's Rhetoric").
“Whately's Rhetoric is what I use. I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit to myself.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Whately's Rhetoric.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.