Margaret Fuller

by Megan Marshall

  [>] “the Elizabeth affair”: FLVI, p. 166.

  [>] “What you have felt”: FLVI, p. 172.

  [>] “fair Elschen”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, p. 9.

  [>] “I looked upon”: FLVI, p. 179.

  [>] “cross mouth”: Quoted in CFI, p. 106.

  [>] “bitter months”: FLI, p. 347.

  [>] “my nerves”: MF journal, quoted in CFI, p. 112.

  [>] “entering “prison”: OMI, p. 135.

  [>] “a great burden”: FLI, p. 347.

  [>] “the only person”: FLI, p. 174.

  [>] “there is no”: Quoted in CFI, p. 112.

  [>] “more sweet”: FLI, p. 170.

  [>] “divinest love”: FLII, p. 93.

  [>] “the same love”: MF journal, quoted in CFI, p. 281.

  [>] “how she idolizes”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, p. 112.

  [>] “I loved Anna”: MF journal, quoted in CFI, p. 281.

  [>] “sympathies most wide”: Quoted in CFI, p. 117.

  [>] “consciousness” of her abilities: Quoted in VM, p. 45.

  [>] “what is the effect”: Quoted in CFI, p. 117.

  [>] “men never”: WNC, p. 30. The quotation begins “But early I perceived that men never . . .”

  [>] “full of self”: Quoted in CFI, p. 116.

  [>] “her kind”: Quoted in CFI, p. 118.

  [>] “you are destined”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, p. 35.

  [>] “should think me fit”: FLVI, p. 195.

  [>] “I felt as I have so often”: FLVI, p. 250.

  [>] “She has nothing”: Quoted in CFI, p. 117.

  [>] “sphere of duty”: Quoted in CFI, p. 118.

  [>] “from a very”: FLVI, p. 134.

  [>] “more extended”: FLI, p. 347.

  [>] that “self-dependence”: WNC, p. 28.

  [>] “pilgrim and sojourner”: FLVI, p. 134.

  [>] “not as a plaything”: WNC, p. 27.

  [>] “conform to an object”: SOL, p. 151.

  [>] “always suffered much”: Thanksgiving Day narrative, OMI, pp. 139–42.

  [>] “communion with”: FLI, p. 347.

  [>] “epoch of pride” . . . “haughty”: FLII, p. 154.

  7. “MY HEART HAS NO PROPER HOME”

  [>] “too tamely”: FLIII, p. 85.

  [>] “neither beautiful”: FLVI, p. 213.

  [>] “characters” . . . “amusing”: FLI, p. 190.

  [>] “where there is never”: FLI, p. 178.

  [>] “This is the first”: FLI, p. 198.

  [>] “a sweet youth”: FLVI, p. 212.

  [>] “collisions,” Margaret called: FLIII, p. 85.

  [>] “in a dark room”: FLI, p. 180.

  [>] “I greeted”: FLI, p. 180.

  [>] “only grown-up daughter”: FLI, p. 201.

  [>] “sitting-still occupations”: FLVI, p. 212.

  [>] “My fingers”: FLVI, pp. 215–16.

  [>] “domestic tyrant”: MF, “Lives of the Great Composers,” Dial, vol. 2, no. 2, October 1841, p. 178.

  [>] “hardening” labor: Richard Fuller, quoted in CFI, p. 122.

  [>] the spot “Hazel-grove”: OMI, p. 154.

  [>] “I used to look”: OMI, p. 170.

  [>] “ill-judged exchange”: FLIII, p. 85.

  [>] “some might sneer”: FLVI, p. 274.

  [>] “seems to have”: FLI, p. 201.

  [>] “entirely absorbed”: FLVI, p. 245.

  [>] “half so friendly”: FLI, p. 88.

  [>] “oercloud” . . . “brought me”: FLVI, p. 206.

  [>] “wild and free”: FLVI, p. 210.

  [>] “I am not a nun”: FLVI, p. 206.

  [>] “How free”: John Wesley Thomas, ed., The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller (Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 43.

  [>] “Whatsoever thy hand”: Quoted in Paula Blanchard, Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1978), p. 81.

  [>] “The wor[ld] receives”: FLVI, p. 210.

  [>] “engrossing object”: FLVI, p. 216.

  [>] “compress all”: FLVI, p. 210.

  [>] “thrilling at the heart”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, p. 58.

  [>] “Why was she a woman?”: Quoted in CFI, p. 117.

  [>] “Fair, pure” . . . “my sweet” . . . “best, truest”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, pp. 52, 27, 58.

  [>] “Your manner”: FLVI, p. 210.

  [>] “disappointed and tortured”: FLVI, p. 208.

  [>] “prepared” to see: FLVI, p. 209.

  [>] “the breaking up”: FLVI, p. 209.

  [>] “you are gone”: FLVI, pp. 209–10.

  [>] “Margaret Good child”: FLVI, p. 232.

  [>] “no sphere”: Quoted in CFI, p. 117.

  [>] “I feel as if”: FLVI, p. 210.

  [>] “You envy”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, p. 77.

  [>] “Now that I have”: FLVI, pp. 210–11.

  [>] “there is no escaping”: FLVI, p. 215.

  [>] “my heart has no”: FLVI, p. 223.

  [>] “lay on the shelf”: FLI, p. 202.

  [>] “icy seclusion”: FLI, p. 195.

  [>] “I rejoice”: FLVI, p. 130.

  [>] “my Father has not”: FLVI, p. 232.

  [>] “try my hand”: FLI, p. 202.

  [>] “ten-thousand, thousand”: FLI, p. 196.

  [>] “is peculiarly home-sickness”: FLI, p. 182.

  [>] Writing from a biblical: FLVI, p. 234.

  [>] “could only write”: FLVI, p. 243.

  [>] connection of Eliza Farrar’s: VM, p. 57.

  [>] “walk into the Boston”: FLVI, p. 260.

  [>] “onward spirit”: FLVI, p. 252.

  [>] “to feed” . . . “Was I not”: FLVI, p. 232.

  [>] “Earning money”: FLVI, pp. 251–52.

  [>] “I am more”: FLI, p. 209.

  [>] “coolness of judgement”: Quoted in FLI, p. 228n.

  [>] “ROME! it stands”: OMI, p. 19.

  [>] “mild in his temper”: MF, “Brutus,” Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot, November 27, 1834.

  [>] “My father requested”: FLI, p. 226.

  [>] “to lose this object”: “Brutus.”

  [>] “ability” as a writer: FLI, p. 226.

  [>] “topics of religion”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, p. 88.

  [>] “Don’t be afraid”: Ibid., p. 91.

  [>] “most brilliant circle”: Quoted in VM, p. 66.

  [>] “the ideal”: Quoted in CFI, p. 149.

  [>] “no matter how severe”: FLVI, p. 258.

  [>] “We feel like an explorer”: Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller, pp. 94–95.

  [>] “one [who] has”: FLVI, p. 258.

  [>] “This going into”: FLI, p. 223.

  [>] “the art of writing”: FLVI, p. 257.

  [>] “My grand object”: FLVI, p. 258.

  [>] “die and leave”: FLVI, p. 254.

  [>] “common-place people”: FLVI, p. 242.

  [>] “I am not yet intimate”: FLI, p. 190.

  [>] “consent” to the time off: FLI, p. 230.

  [>] “romantic rocks”: FLI, p. 232.

  [>] “gorgeous” . . . “immense” . . . “dropped”: FLI, p. 233.

  [>] “dressed dolls”: FLI, p. 217.

  [>] “see her”: FLVI, p. 265.

  [>] “I was to him”: FLVI, p. 267.

  [>] “has what I want”: Quoted in CFI, p. 155.

  [>] “all the most”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Mary Tyler Peabody, [January 31, 1835], Berg.

  [>] “that only clergyman”: FLI, p. 210.

  [>] “of any American”: MF to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Groton, February 3, 1836, in “Biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody” [manuscript draft] by Mary Van Wyck Church, p. 298, MHS.

 
[>] “the reverend”: FLVI, p. 266.

  [>] “of character and manners”: FLI, p. 225.

  [>] “restless desire”: FLI, p. 223.

  [>] “write a novel”: FLVI, p. 261.

  [>] “the most gentle”: FLVI, p. 251.

  [>] “My dear”: Quoted in VM, p. 71.

  8. “RETURNED INTO LIFE”

  [>] “worn to a shadow” . . . “orphan” . . . “awful calm”: OMI, pp. 155–56.

  [>] “the lifeless”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), p. 54.

  [>] “returned into life”: FLI, p. 244.

  [>] “My father’s image”: OMI, p. 156.

  [>] “I have often”: FLI, p. 237.

  [>] “a more heedful ear”: FLI, p. 239.

  [>] “make things”: FLI, p. 237.

  [>] “my boys”: FLI, p. 231.

  [>] “become more tenderly”: FLVI, p. 271.

  [>] “Art is Nature”: Quoted in CFI, p. 150.

  [>] “write a Life”: FLVI, p. 260.

  [>] “I should like”: John Wesley Thomas, ed., The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller (Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 94.

  [>] “She thinks the time”: FLVI, p. 272.

  [>] “the first winter”: FLII, p. 168.

  [>] “to tear my heart”: FLI, p. 247.

  [>] “some isle”: Jeffrey Steele, ed., The Essential Margaret Fuller (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992), p. 1.

  [>] “masculine traits”: Ibid., p. 7.

  [>] “When with soft eyes”: Ibid., p. 2.

  [>] “full of poverty”: FLII, p. 168.

  [>] “the silent room”: FLII, p. 168.

  [>] “an ascetic life”: FLII, p. 168.

  [>] “bareness, her pure shroud”: FLII, p. 169.

  [>] “to forget myself”: FLI, p. 254.

  [>] “ask no more”: FLII, p. 169.

  [>] “I was called”: FLI, p. 244.

  [>] “a tower”: Quoted in CFI, p. 166.

  [>] “happy sort”: The story is recounted in “Death in Life,” OMI, pp. 162–64.

  [>] “What I can do”: FLI, p. 254.

  [>] “get money”: FLI, p. 254.

  [>] “spiritual philosophy”: MF, quoted in CFI, p. 198.

  [>] “cultivate the heart”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Love Rawlins Pickman, Thursday evening [July 1835], Horace Mann Collection, microfilm edition, 40 reels (Boston: MHS, 1989), reel 4.

  [>] “the advantage”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Record of a School, Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture (Boston: James Munroe, 1835), pp. 62–63.

  [>] “I had seen the Universe”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, “Miss Peabody’s Reminiscences of Margaret’s Married Life,” Boston Evening Transcript, June 10, 1885. I am grateful to Mary De Jong for sharing her discovery of this important article.

  [>] “the pilot-minds”: Quoted in CFI, pp. 178–79.

  [>] “mind-emotions”: Quoted in CFI, p. 177.

  [>] “I would gladly”: FLVI, p. 274.

  [>] “liberal communion”: FLIV, p. 192.

  [>] “I believe we all”: ELII, pp. 46–47.

  [>] “assuage grief’s”: MF, “LINES—On the Death of C.C.E.,” Daily Centinel and Gazette, vol. 1, no. 32, May 17, 1836.

  [>] “little book”: FLII, p. 128. In this letter to RWE of April 12, 1840, MF recalls that she never read Nature in book form because RWE had read it aloud to her. The book was in print by the time of her next long stay in the spring of 1837.

  [>] “We like her”: Dolores Bird Carpenter, ed., The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987), p. 49.

  [>] “like being set”: ELII, p. 32.

  [>] “even “question[ing]” them: Mary Tyler Peabody to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, letter beginning “I did not get . . . ,” n.d. [1836], Horace Mann Collection, microfilm edition, 40 reels (Boston: MHS, 1989), reel 4.

  [>] “more liberal”: Quoted in CFI, p. 197.

  [>] the Unitarian “Pope”: Theodore Parker, quoted in Wesley T. Mott, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 186.

  [>] managed to “offend”: ELI, p. 450.

  [>] “magnetic power” . . . “sympathy and time”: FLVI, p. 261.

  [>] “Whoever would preach”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, “Emerson as Preacher,” in F. B. Sanborn, ed., The Genius and Character of Emerson: Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1971, reprint of 1885 edition), p. 161.

  [>] “greatly pained”: FLVI, p. 287.

  [>] “forget what”: Quoted in CFI, p. 195.

  [>] “Margaret alone”: FLI, p. 95.

  [>] “born with knives”: RWE, “Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England,” Lectures and Biographical Sketches (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), p. 311.

  [>] “vicious in”: Quoted in Bruce Ronda, ed., The Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1984), p. 245.

  [>] “the only book”: ELVII, p. 245.

  [>] “one third”: Quoted in CFI, p. 198.

  [>] “an ignorant”: Quoted in Madelon Bedell, The Alcotts: Biography of a Family (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980), p. 131.

  [>] “more indecent”: Joseph T. Buckingham, review in the Boston Courier, quoted in CFI, p. 198.

  [>] “one-sided”: Quoted in CFI, p. 198.

  [>] “star of purest”: FLI, p. 265.

  [>] “lost in abstractions”: OMI, p. 172.

  9. “BRINGING MY OPINIONS TO THE TEST”

  [>] “Here is the hostile”: FLI, pp. 286–87.

  [>] “It is but a bad”: FLVI, p. 293.

  [>] “too young”: FLIII, p. 226.

  [>] “faded frocks” . . . “Now that”: FLI, p. 258.

  [>] “vegetate” . . . “sunny kindness”: FLI, p. 272.

  [>] “had a grand”: FLI, p. 285.

  [>] “as soon as you can”: ELII, p. 35.

  [>] “poppy & oatmeal”: ELII, p. 37.

  [>] “esteemed her “holiness”: FLI, p. 328.

  [>] “We lead a life”: ELII, p. 41.

  [>] “I am sure”: FLI, p. 269.

  [>] privately “schooling” herself: FLI, p. 272.

  [>] “the excitement”: FLI, p. 272.

  [>] “Waldo’s “Compensation”: FLI, p. 285.

  [>] “learning geology”: “Address on Education,” in Stephen E. Whicher, Robert E. Spiller, and Wallace E. Williams, eds., The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2, 1836–1838 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964), pp. 195–96.

  [>] “Concord, dear Concord”: FLI, p. 283.

  [>] “These black times”: ELII, p. 77.

  [>] “peculiar aspects”: “Address on Education,” pp. 195–97.

  [>] “The disease”: Ibid., p. 196.

  [>] “capital secret”: Ibid., p. 202.

  [>] “teach self-trust”: Ibid., p. 199.

  [>] “Amid the swarming”: Ibid., p. 196.

  [>] “Man Thinking”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), p. 54.

  [>] “willing to communicate”: Laraine R. Fergensen, “Margaret Fuller in the Classroom: The Providence Period,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1987 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 138.

  [>] “I believe I do”: FLI, p. 292.

  [>] “There is room”: FLI, p. 288.

  [>] “hearts are right”: FLI, p. 292.

  [>] “absolutely torpid”: To Bronson Alcott, FLI, p. 287.

  [>] “this experience”: FLI, p. 292.

  [>] “antipathy” to worms: Laraine R. Fergensen, “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher in Providence: The School Journal of Ann Brown,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1991 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 70.

  [>] “spoke upon”: Mary War
e Allen, quoted in VM, p. 102.

  [>] “wished to live”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 102.

  [>] “Daphne, Aspasia, Sappho: Judith Strong Albert, “Margaret Fuller’s Row at the Greene Street School: Early Female Education in Providence, 1837–1839,” Rhode Island History, vol. 42, May 1983, p. 46.

  [>] “Lament of Mary”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 70.

  [>] Princess Victoria’s ascension: Ibid., pp. 67–68.

  [>] “How and when”: Mark Shuffleton, “Margaret Fuller at the Greene Street School: The Journal of Evelina Metcalf,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1985 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 39.

  [>] “I wish”: Anna Gale, quoted in CFI, p. 230.

  [>] “serve two masters”: FLI, p. 327.

  [>] “barbarous ignorance”: Quoted in Bell Gale Chevigny, The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller’s Life and Writings (Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1976), p. 174.

  [>] “miserably prepared”: FLI, p. 292.

  [>] “satirical” . . . “I often” . . . “too rough” . . . “I dare”: “Margaret Fuller in the Classroom,” pp. 134–35.

  [>] “we must think”: Quoted in CFI, p. 231.

  [>] message of “self-trust”: “The American Scholar,” pp. 53–71 passim.

  [>] Emerson’s “sermons”: OMI, p. 195.

  [>] “Who would be”: JMNV, p. 407.

  [>] “what is any”: ELII, p. 82.

  [>] “O my friends”: FLI, pp. 294–95.

  [>] “Mr. Hedge’s Club”: ELII, p. 95.

  [>] club of the “Like-Minded”: JFC, quoted in CFI, p. 182.

  [>] “all-day party”: Dolores Bird Carpenter, ed., The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987), p. 59.

  [>] “the progress”: Tess Hoffman, “Miss Fuller Among the Literary Lions: Two Essays Read at ‘The Coliseum’ in 1838,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1988 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 45.

  [>] “who knows”: ELII, p. 95.

  [>] “plying the “Spiritualists”: Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, p. 59.

  [>] “incompleteness” in the reasoning: “Miss Fuller Among the Literary Lions,” p. 51.

  [>] “immense wants”: Ibid., p. 46.

  [>] “a woman may”: Ibid., p. 50.

  [>] “marriage, mantua-making”: FLVI, p. 279.