Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohn Whitaker

“Mary, List! Awake”

"Mary, List! Awake" (c. 1818)

John Whitaker (1776–1847) · c. 1818

InferredFuller names "Mary list awake," a piano piece she played, identified through the Library of Congress catalog as "Mary Mary list awake a favorite ballad" with music by John Whitaker and text attributed to Leigh Hunt, published around 1818-1821.

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Documented 1824

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1824—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I played "Mary list awake," Bruce's address to his army,"—and "Oh this is the spot.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names "Mary list awake," a piano piece she played, identified through the Library of Congress catalog as "Mary Mary list awake a favorite ballad" with music by John Whitaker and text attributed to Leigh Hunt, published around 1818-1821.