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Margaret Fuller

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by Megan Marshall


  [>] “Too bright”: “Miss Fuller Among the Literary Lions,” p. 50.

  [>] “the idea”: Ibid.

  [>] “I feel”: FLI, p. 302.

  [>] “I grow”: FLI, p. 325.

  [>] “school for”: FLI, p. 322.

  [>] “those who would reform”: FLI, p. 287.

  [>] “This was just”: FLI, pp. 322–23.

  [>] “there were no”: FLI, p. 304.

  [>] “It is no longer”: FLI, p. 316.

  [>] “I must leave”: FLI, p. 295.

  [>] “Holiness” and “Heroism”: FLI, pp. 327–28.

  [>] “all the scandal” . . . “a poor”: FLI, p. 293.

  [>] “You must not”: FLI, p. 318.

  [>] “she’d been expelled: FLII, p. 149.

  [>] “As to transcendentalism”: FLI, pp. 314–15.

  [>] “nothing striped”: FLI, p. 311.

  [>] “the heroic element”: FLII, p. 41.

  [>] “I keep on”: FLI, p. 327.

  [>] “three precious”: FLI, p. 320.

  [>] “two years”: FLI, p. 349.

  [>] “that I may”: FLI, p. 320.

  [>] “There is a beauty”: FLI, p. 331.

  [>] “devote to writing”: FLI, p. 349.

  [>] “Its superior tone”: ELII, p. 135.

  [>] “it is regal”: FLI, p. 332.

  [>] “We are the children”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 91.

  [>] “those means”: FLI, p. 327.

  [>] “gabbled and simpered”: FLI, p. 351.

  [>] any “May-gales”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 90.

  [>] “eat up”: ELII, p. 143.

  [>] “as handsome”: ELII, p. 135.

  [>] “I am better”: FLI, p. 328.

  [>] “It seems”: ELII, p. 168. This passage may have been the germ of Emerson’s well-known statement “Men descend to meet,” in his essay “The Over-Soul.” Essays and Lectures, p. 391.

  [>] “persons except”: ELII, p. 129.

  [>] “Devoutly” . . . “Always”: FLI, pp. 328, 337.

  [>] “For a hermit”: ELII, p. 143.

  [>] “Will you commission”: ELII, p. 169.

  [>] “I heard”: FLI, p. 352.

  [>] “a new young man”: FLI, pp. 341–42.

  [>] “full of affection”: FLI, p. 342.

  [>] “elegantly bound”: “Margaret Fuller at the Greene Street School,” p. 45.

  [>] “vestal solitudes”: FLI, p. 351.

  [>] “I do not wish”: FLI, pp. 353–55 passim.

  10. “WHAT WERE WE BORN TO DO?”

  [>] “all the value”: FLVI, p. 312.

  [>] “pitiful” and “clumsy”: FLI, p. 300.

  [>] “Lines” . . . “F”: “LINES–On the Death of C.C.E.,” Daily Centinel and Gazette, vol. 1, no. 32, May 17, 1836.

  [>] “huntsman’s dart”: From “Eagles and Doves,” in John Sullivan Dwight, ed., Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1839), pp. 104–5.

  [>] “To a Golden Heart”: Ibid., p. 31.

  [>] “there is reason”: Ibid., p. xv.

  [>] “in course”: Ibid.

  [>] “lying in heaps”: FLVI, p. 309.

  [>] “monologue” by Goethe: MF translation, Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life, Translated from the German of Eckermann (Boston: J. Munroe, 1839), p. viii.

  [>] “He knew both”: Ibid., p. xx.

  [>] “it was all tea”: FLVI, p. 309.

  [>] “hackneyed moral”: FLII, p. 56.

  [>] “the disorders”: FLIII, p. 85.

  [>] “is the natural”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women,” Dial, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 35.

  [>] “as if an intellectual”: FLII, p. 32.

  [>] “a brilliant”: ELII, pp. 202–3.

  [>] “daunts & chills”: ELII, p. 197.

  [>] “ransom more time”: FLIII, p. 198.

  [>] “speed the pen”: ELII, p. 203.

  [>] threw herself “unremittingly”: Robert N. Hudspeth, “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal: Trip to Bristol,” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 27, 1979, p. 454.

  [>] begun negotiations: FLII, pp. 113–14.

  [>] practice of billing: FLI, p. 350.

  [>] “the richest”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal,” p. 456.

  [>] “ill stocked” library: Ibid., p. 457.

  [>] “destitute of all”: Ibid., p. 464.

  [>] “live wire”: Quoted in CFI, p. 271.

  [>] “unsustained” and “uncertain”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal,” p. 464.

  [>] “fine houses”: FLIII, p. 69.

  [>] “A man’s ambition”: Quoted in VM, p. 114.

  [>] “Ministry of Talking”: VM, p. 114.

  [>] “circle” of women: FLII, p. 87.

  [>] “great instincts”: Nancy Craig Simmons, “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations: The 1839–1840 Series,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1994 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 204.

  [>] “These Greeks”: FLII, p. 40.

  [>] “German Romantic “mythomania”: Marie Cleary, “Margaret Fuller and Her Timeless Friends,” in Gregory A. Staley, ed., American Women and Classical Myths (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2009), p. 46.

  [>] “state their doubts”: FLII, p. 86.

  [>] “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.

  [>] “an age of consciousness”: OMI, p. 186.

  [>] “era of experiment”: FLIII, p. 120.

  [>] of “illumination”: FLIII, p. 55.

  [>] “undefended by rouge”: FLII, p. 88.

  [>] “digressing into personalities”: FLII, p. 86.

  [>] “simple & clear”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 203.

  [>] “learn by blundering”: FLII, p. 88.

  [>] “to question” . . . “a precision”: FLII, pp. 88, 87.

  [>] most women felt “inferior”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 203.

  [>] “few inducements”: FLII, p. 87. For a discussion of young ladies’ academies, many of which provided a more thorough education than MF realized, see Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

  [>] “that practical” . . . “application”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 203.

  [>] “magic about me”: FLII, p. 175.

  [>] rate of pay: CFI, p. 293.

  [>] “the most entertaining”: OMI, p. 308.

  [>] “finished and true”: OMI, p. 95.

  [>] “a kind of infidel”: Sarah Clarke, quoted in CFI, p. 293.

  [>] “dreaded” the feeling: FLII, p. 97.

  [>] “nucleus of conversation”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 203.

  [>] “the real trial”: FLII, p. 98.

  [>] “playful as well as deep”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 204.

  [>] “the embodiment”: Undated manuscript [ca. fall 1839], “Comments on Margaret Fuller’s Conversations, in hand of Miss Mary Peabody,” Robert Lincoln Straker typescripts, pp. 1313–14, Antiochiana.

  [>] “not as the Goddess”: Ibid.

  [>] “set forth”: Ibid.

  [>] “Why was it” . . . “What do”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 207.

  [>] “was inevitable”: “Comments on Margaret Fuller’s Conversations.”

  [>] “credulous simplicity” . . . “Many questions”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” pp. 207, 208.

  [>] “wisdom” . . . “the conversation”: Ibid., pp. 208, 209.

  [>] “rather little”: Ibid., p. 210.

  [>] “kept clinging”: FLII, p. 97.
r />   [>] “seeking out”: “Comments on Margaret Fuller’s Conversations.”

  [>] “what was the distinction”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 214.

  [>] “women were instinctive”: Ibid., pp. 214–15.

  [>] “feminine or receptive”: Joel Myerson, The New England Transcendentalists and The Dial (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1980), p. 21.

  [>] “repressing or subduing”: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 215, italics added for readability.

  [>] “something higher”: Ibid., p. 214.

  [>] “want of isolation”: Ibid., pp. 215–16.

  [>] “Let men”: Ibid., p. 216.

  [>] “passionate wish”: OMI, p. 215.

  [>] “There I have”: FLII, p. 118.

  11. “THE GOSPEL OF TRANSCENDENTALISM”

  [>] “It is true”: FLVI, p. 314.

  [>] “any other record”: FLVI, p. 310.

  [>] “wise mind”: MF, Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems, Arthur B. Fuller, ed. (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), p. 31.

  [>] “I shall love”: FLVI, p. 315.

  [>] “all sorts of”: John Wesley Thomas, ed., The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller (Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 91.

  [>] “enlist all”: Henry Hedge, quoted in VM, p. 64.

  [>] “speak truth”: RWE, quoted in Joel Myerson, The New England Transcendentalists and The Dial (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1980), p. 31.

  [>] “dreamy, mystical”: Ibid., p. 26.

  [>] “obey thyself”: RWE, “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838,” Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), pp. 81, 79, 76, 92.

  [>] “nature itself”: “Abner Kneeland,” Dictionary of UUA Biography, www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/.

  [>] “the famine”: “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College,” p. 84.

  [>] “incoherent rhapsody”: Robert D. Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 299.

  [>] “As long as all”: Ibid., p. 300.

  [>] “They call it”: Ibid., p. 292.

  [>] “I begin”: ELII, pp. 168–69.

  [>] “If utterance”: “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College,” p. 83.

  [>] “Never forget”: Family School, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 20.

  [>] “the snore”: New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 34.

  [>] “There will be”: Ibid., p. 30.

  [>] “entire freedom”: Ibid., p. 38.

  [>] “we of the sublunary”: Ibid., p. 44.

  [>] “A perfectly free”: FLII, p. 126.

  [>] “afternoon and evening”: New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 38.

  [>] “unemployed force”: FLII, p. 126.

  [>] “you prophecied”: FLII, p. 111.

  [>] “wish it to be”: ELII, p. 243.

  [>] “looking for the gospel”: FLII, p. 131.

  [>] “My position”: FLII, p. 109.

  [>] “small minority”: FLII, pp. 108–10.

  [>] “the public”: FLII, p. 131.

  [>] “everlasting yes”: MF, “Lives of the Great Composers,” in Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), p. 283.

  [>] “intolerable that there”: New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 31.

  [>] “literary lions”: Thomas L. Woodson, Neal Smith, and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds., The Letters, 1813–1843: Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, vol. 15 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984), p. 382.

  [>] the couple had “feasted”: Sophia Peabody to her brother George Peabody, May 21, 1839, Berg.

  [>] “measuring no hours”: “The Editors to the Reader,” Dial, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1840, p. 4.

  [>] “a little beyond”: New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 26.

  [>] “gladly contribute”: ELII, p. 229.

  [>] “your labors”: ELII, p. 243.

  [>] “this flowing”: ELII, p. 234.

  [>] “We have nothing”: ELII, pp. 285–87 passim.

  [>] “those parts”: FLII, p. 132.

  [>] “Every body”: Entry of April 17, “Notebook for 1840,” FMW.

  [>] “these gentlemen”: JMNXI, p. 471.

  [>] second American “revolution”: “The Editors to the Reader,” pp. 2–4 passim.

  [>] “A Short Essay on Critics”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1840, pp. 5–11.

  [>] “power & skill”: ELII, p. 281.

  [>] “the laws”: “A Short Essay on Critics,” p. 5. Margaret also worked to establish standards of criticism for musical performance in her Dial writings and later reviews for the New-York Tribune. See Megan Marshall, “Music’s ‘Everlasting Yes’: A Romantic Critic in the Romantic Era,” in Margaret Fuller and Her Circles, Brigitte Bailey, Katheryn Viens, and Conrad E. Wright, eds. (Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2013), pp. 148–60, 277–79.

  [>] “critics are poets”: Ibid., p. 7.

  [>] “He will teach”: Ibid., p. 11.

  [>] “In books”: Ibid., p. 10.

  [>] “I know”: FLII, pp. 124–25.

  [>] “Nature is ever”: “A Short Essay on Critics,” p. 10.

  [>] “in an unpoetical”: “A Record of Impressions Produced by the Exhibition of Mr. Allston’s Pictures in the Summer of 1839,” Dial, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1840, p. 74.

  [>] “When I look”: FLII, p. 127.

  [>] “adapt myself”: FLII, p. 125.

  [>] “We shall write”: FLII, p. 126.

  [>] “urge on”: FLII, p. 131.

  [>] “a large”: FLIII, p. 39.

  [>] “my protestor”: Quoted in Emerson: The Mind on Fire, p. 309.

  [>] “The Problem”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1840, p. 122.

  [>] a sonnet she’d written: “To W. Allston, on Seeing His ‘Bride,’” Dial, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1840, pp. 83–84.

  [>] “a type” . . . “Woman’s heaven”: FLII, p. 166. MF explains her intended meaning of the sonnet to WHC in this letter of October 19, 1840. “Where Thought”: “To W. Allston,” p. 84.

  [>] “Orphic Sayings”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1840, pp. 85–98.

  [>] “you will not”: ELII, p. 294.

  [>] “quite grand”: FLII, p. 135.

  [>] “in a new spirit”: ELII, p. 313.

  [>] “O queen”: ELII, p. 316.

  [>] “pleading . . . affinity”: “Orphic Sayings,” p. 85.

  [>] “infidelity in its higher”: Critical responses quoted in New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 51.

  [>] prized “imagination”: Ibid., pp. 51–52.

  [>] “one of the most”: Ibid., p. 51.

  [>] managed to “explode”: ELII, p. 305.

  [>] “Our community”: Quoted in New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 53.

  [>] “the word Dial”: ELII, p. 311.

  [>] “honest, great”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 2, October 1840, p. 227.

  [>] “I think when”: FLII, p. 152.

  [>] “deserve greater”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 2, October 1840, pp. 260–61. One of the two paintings by Sarah Clarke, Kentucky Beech Forest, remains in the Boston Athenaeum’s collections.

  [>] “the task”: FLII, p. 175.

  [>] “peace”: FLII, p. 181.

  [>] “better and perhaps”: Quoted in New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 59.

  [>] “truly interested”: FLII, p. 182.

  [>] “all that is lovely”: Günderode (Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1842), p. x.

  [>] suicide of the older: The events leading up to Karoline’s death, including Bettine’s attempt to distract her from heartbreak with the attentions of a “young French Officer of Hussars,” are recounted in Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and L
ongmans, 1839), vol. 1, pp. 98–122.

  [>] “a prophet”: “Menzel’s View of Goethe,” Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, pp. 340–47.

  [>] “rich in thoughts”: FLII, p. 185.

  [>] “A man’s idea”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 357.

  [>] “exponent of Literary Liberty”: Critical response quoted in New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 62.

  [>] “most original”: Theodore Parker, “German Literature,” Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 320.

  [>] “No one of all”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 405.

  [>] essay titled “Woman”: Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, pp. 362–66.

  [>] “not like a botanist”: FLII, pp. 165–66.

  [>] “singing to herself”: MF, “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, pp. 299–305.

  [>] “I cannot”: FLII, p. 167.

  [>] “prize the monitions”: “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” p. 299.

  [>] ticket fees: New England Transcendentalists and The Dial, p. 63.

  [>] “the good Public”: ELII, p. 376.

  [>] “fervid Southern”: ELII, p. 378.

  12. COMMUNITIES AND COVENANTS

  [>] “to hear you”: ELII, p. 364.

  [>] “I thought”: ELVII, p. 445.

  [>] missed the opening session: ELII, p. 383.

  [>] “a more simple”: Quoted in Sterling F. Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 34.

  [>] “simple earnestness”: FLII, p. 101.

  [>] “I was no longer”: Ednah Dow Cheney, Reminiscences (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1902), p. 205.

  [>] “the club”: ELII, p. 293.

  [>] “when once”: JMNXI, p. 476–77, and FLII, pp. 101–2.

  [>] “denationalize” and subsequent quotations from 1841 opening Conversations: Caroline W. Healey Dall, Margaret and Her Friends (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895), pp. 26–29, 31–38. See also Joel Myerson, “Mrs. Dall Edits Miss Fuller: The Story of Margaret and Her Friends,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 72, no. 2, 1978, pp. 187–200.

  [>] “seemed melted” . . . “relation” . . . “perfectly true”: MF to WHC in JMNXI, p. 477.

  [>] “We have time”: MF to Sarah Helen Whitman, FLII, p. 118.

  [>] “all kindled”: MF to WHC in JMNXI, p. 477.

  [>] “distinct in expression”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women,” Dial, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 21.

 

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