Margaret Fuller

by Megan Marshall

  [>] “born to rove”: SOL, p. 26.

  [>] “every anecdote”: MF journal, quoted in VM, p. 174.

  [>] “blissful seclusion”: SOL, p. 28.

  [>] “we do not”: MF journal, quoted in VM, p. 174.

  [>] “so all life”: FLIII, p. 143.

  [>] “overpaid for coming”: FLIII, p. 133.

  [>] “free careless”: FLIII, p. 169.

  [>] “drinking visiters”: SOL, p. 26.

  [>] “I had never”: SOL, p. 33.

  [>] “puffs of Ameriky”: SOL, p. 37.

  [>] “decked with” . . . “My companions”: SOL, p. 33.

  [>] “from the blood”: SOL, p. 41.

  [>] “seated in the Indian”: SOL, p. 41.

  [>] “the body”: FLIII, p. 133.

  [>] “standing at gaze”: SOL, pp. 71–72.

  [>] “most engaging”: FLVI, p. 348.

  [>] “Roman figure” . . . “sullenly observing”: FLIII, p. 135.

  [>] “he felt”: SOL, p. 75.

  [>] “beautiful looking”: FLIII, p. 135.

  [>] “medicinal virtues”: SOL, p. 41.

  [>] “sweet melancholy”: SOL, p. 74.

  [>] “delicacy of manners”: SOL, p. 112.

  [>] “the educated”: SOL, p. 109.

  [>] “fair rich”: MF journal, quoted in JMNXI, p. 461.

  [>] “vast flowery”: FLIII, p. 169.

  [>] “mode of cultivation”: SOL, p. 29.

  [>] “the harmony”: FLIII, p. 169.

  [>] “rightful lords”: SOL, p. 29.

  [>] “new, boundless” . . . “neither wall” . . . “gain from”: SOL, p. 40.

  [>] “omnivorous traveler”: SOL, p. 29.

  [>] “for affection’s”: SOL, pp. 38–39.

  [>] “students of the soil”: SOL, p. 41.

  [>] “canoe-men in pink”: SOL, p. 150.

  [>] “sportsman stories”: SOL, p. 152.

  [>] “such childish”: SOL, p. 152.

  [>] “I have given”: FLVI, p. 151.

  [>] “writ[ing] constantly”: FLII, p. 126.

  [>] “every arbitrary”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women,” Dial, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, pp. 14, 44, 47.

  [>] most enduring: Even at the time, Theodore Parker recognized the essay to be “the best piece that has seen the light in the Dial,” letter to RWE, August 2, 1843, MHS, quoted in CFII, p. 121.

  [>] “look abroad”: FLVI, p. 143.

  [>] “noble career” . . . “take share”: FLVI, p. 151.

  [>] “the man to be with”: FLIII, p. 148.

  [>] “those dim”: FLIII, p. 52.

  [>] “the student”: FLIII, p. 151.

  [>] “poor shady”: FLIII, p. 151.

  [>] “have sweets”: FLII, p. 65.

  [>] “had never”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), p. 194.

  [>] “no lives” . . . “little book”: FLIII, pp. 160, 159.

  [>] “in addressing”: OMI, p. 130.

  [>] “my mind”: Margaret Fuller Ossoli, p. 195.

  [>] “you would”: FLIII, pp. 160–61.

  [>] “friend at once”: FLVI, p. 260.

  [>] “the Public”: FLIII, p. 196.

  [>] her initials: See Joel Myerson, Margaret Fuller: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978), for title pages of first editions of MF’s published work.

  [>] “an important era”: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 142.

  [>] seven hundred copies: Margaret Fuller: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 11.

  [>] “literary sect” . . . “excellencies” . . . “graphicality”: Quoted in CFII, p. 155.

  [>] “one of the most”: Quoted in CFII, p. 165.

  [>] “the only” . . . “your house” . . . “has a fine”: Quoted in CFII, p. 155.

  [>] “reflective tendency” . . . “a heathen”: Quoted in CFII, p. 156.

  [>] “seems to be”: FLIII, p. 204.

  [>] “world of infants”: FLIII, p. 211.

  [>] “men do not feel”: FLIII, p. 175.

  [>] “Girls are”: FLIII, p. 197.

  [>] “I love best”: FLVI, pp. 143–44.

  [>] “live truly”: FLVI, p. 144.

  [>] “I have no child”: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 171.

  [>] “feel withdrawn”: MF journal, quoted in JMNXI, p. 464.

  [>] inducing “palsy”: FLVI, p. 144.

  [>] sixty dollars: FLIII, p. 181.

  [>] “companion” or “to be loved”: FLVI, p. 348.

  [>] “not to be”: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 137.

  [>] “keen pangs”: FLIV, p. 66.

  [>] “wide digressions”: OMI, pp. 350–51.

  [>] “there is no”: FLIII, p. 161.

  [>] “Life is worth”: FLIII, p. 187.

  [>] “Our intercourse”: MF, “Dialogue,” Dial, vol. 4, no. 4, July 1844, pp. 458–59.

  [>] “doubt whether”: MF journal, quoted in JMNXI, p. 499.

  [>] “the stream”: MF to CS, May 3, 1844, quoted in JMNXI, p. 464.

  [>] “I am not”: MF journal, quoted in JMNXI, p. 468.

  [>] “independent life”: FLIII, p. 199.

  [>] “get beyond”: FLIII, p. 229.

  [>] “transcendental fatalism”: Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, eds., “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 102, 1990, p. 93.

  [>] “disappointments” in Waldo: FLIII, p. 209.

  [>] “Life here”: FLIII, p. 213.

  [>] “deep yearnings”: MF journal, quoted in JMNXI, pp. 463–64.

  [>] “adventurous course”: FLIII, p. 210.

  [>] “remarkable justness”: Quoted in CFII, p. 122.

  [>] “degradation” had less: FLIII, p. 223.

  [>] “so pleasantly”: FLIII, p. 242.

  [>] thirty thousand subscribers: CFII, p. 195.

  [>] “already eminent”: CFII, p. 197.

  [>] “the wiser mind”: FLVI, p. 343.

  [>] “at least try”: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 166.

  [>] “the busy”: FLIII, p. 245.

  [>] “spinning out”: FLIII, p. 241.

  [>] “When it comes to”: FLIII, p. 143.

  [>] “a delightful”: FLIII, pp. 241–42.

  14. “I STAND IN THE SUNNY NOON OF LIFE”

  [>] “holy and equal”: Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 102, 1990, p. 89.

  [>] “What do you think”: Quoted in Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, vol. 1 (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1968, reprint of 1884 edition), p. 257.

  [>] “A wife only”: Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, vol. 1, p. 258. Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne together wrote a letter to MF that was far less critical of the book, judging from MF’s response (FLIV, p. 103), but the letter does not survive.

  [>] “No unmarried”: Orestes Brownson, quoted in CFII, p. 188.

  [>] first printing: FLIV, p. 56.

  [>] “the liberal”: Charleston Mercury, quoted in CFII, p. 188.

  [>] “a bold book”: Quoted in CFII, pp. 186–88.

  [>] “There exists”: WNC, p. 22.

  [>] “While any one”: WNC, p. 10.

  [>] “interests were”: WNC, p. 156.

  [>] “no home”: WNC, p. 25.

  [>] “as a nature”: WNC, p. 27.

  [>] “live without”: WNC, p. 25.

  [>] “a noble piece” . . . “quite an important”: Quoted in Larry J. Reynolds, “From Dial Essay to New York Book: The Making of Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” in Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith, eds., Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995), p. 25.

  [>] �
�The world”: WNC, p. 95.

  [>] “rouse their” . . . “assume [their]”: WNC, pp. 159, 162.

  [>] “‘Girls can’t’”: WNC, p. 33.

  [>] “Let it not”: WNC, p. 31.

  [>] “If she knows”: WNC, p. 107.

  [>] “better companions”: WNC, p. 84.

  [>] “must marry”: WNC, p. 58.

  [>] “an adopted child”: WNC, p. 59.

  [>] “seal of degradation”: WNC, p. 66.

  [>] “belong[s] to”: WNC, p. 162.

  [>] “there is no”: WNC, p. 51.

  [>] “household partnership”: WNC, p. 60.

  [>] “intellectual companionship”: WNC, p. 60.

  [>] “work together”: WNC, p. 67.

  [>] “in public life”: WNC, p. 60.

  [>] “two minds” . . . “express an onward”: WNC, p. 66.

  [>] “seeking clearness”: WNC, p. 62.

  [>] “highest grade”: WNC, p. 69.

  [>] “the thirst”: WNC, p. 157.

  [>] “reverent love”: WNC, pp. 70–71.

  [>] “need to be”: FLII, pp. 159–60.

  [>] “ordinary attachment” . . . “age, position”: FLII, pp. 90, 81.

  [>] “mutual visionary”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 105.

  [>] “his only true”: WNC, pp. 71–72.

  [>] “chastity and equality”: WNC, p. 120.

  [>] “Woman, self-centred”: WNC, p. 162.

  [>] “excessive devotion”: WNC, p. 161.

  [>] “so entirely”: WNC, p. 146.

  [>] “her whole existence”: WNC, pp. 161–62.

  [>] “men never”: WNC, p. 30.

  [>] “the ennui”: WNC, p. 160.

  [>] “absorbed” in marriage: WNC, p. 162.

  [>] “self-reliance and self-impulse”: WNC, p. 161.

  [>] “compromise” and “helplessness”: WNC, p. 107.

  [>] “obedient goodness”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 89.

  [>] “sign of the times”: WNC, p. 82.

  [>] “despised auxiliaries”: WNC, pp. 84–85.

  [>] “celibacy is the great”: WNC, p. 106.

  [>] “cherished no sentimental”: WNC, pp. 27–29.

  [>] “Saints and geniuses”: WNC, p. 86.

  [>] “much greater”: WNC, p. 159.

  [>] “remove arbitrary”: WNC, p. 158.

  [>] “We would”: WNC, p. 26.

  [>] “men do not”: WNC, pp. 158–59.

  [>] “a ship at sea”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 94.

  [>] “man . . . is man”: Joel Myerson, “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal: At Concord with the Emersons,” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 21, no. 3, July 1973, p. 330.

  [>] “male and female”: WNC, p. 103.

  [>] “every faculty”: Nancy Craig Simmons, “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations: The 1839–1840 Series,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1994 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 214.

  [>] “There is no”: WNC, p. 103.

  [>] “no discordant”: WNC, p. 26.

  [>] “Patient serpent”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 74.

  [>] “I stand”: WNC, p. 163.

  [>] “their wounds”: FLIV, p. 59.

  [>] “Great Book”: FLIV, p. 59.

  [>] “The thousands”: Quoted in CFII, p. 187.

  [>] “the opposition”: FLIV, p. 59.

  [>] “loose” . . . “chaste ideal”: Quoted in CFII, p. 189.

  [>] she had been “heard”: FLIV, p. 56.

  [>] “demure Boston”: Francis B. Dedmond, “The Letters of Caroline Sturgis to Margaret Fuller,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1988 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 232.

  [>] “The style”: Ibid., p. 239.

  [>] “one of her “trances”: Ibid., p. 231.

  [>] “It makes me”: Ibid., p. 239.

  [>] “I have found”: FLIV, p. 64.

  [>] “first time”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 101.

  [>] “prison” of Captain Sturgis’s: “The Letters of Caroline Sturgis to Margaret Fuller,” p. 235.

  [>] “has the physical”: Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, vol. 1, p. 258.

  15. “FLYING ON THE PAPER WINGS OF EVERY DAY”

  [>] “dull and dubious”: Judith Matson Bean and Joel Myerson, eds., Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), p. 98.

  [>] “should be looked at”: Ibid.

  [>] “building plan: Alison R. Brown, “Reform and Curability in American Insane Asylums of the 1840’s: The Conflict of Motivation Between Humanitarian Efforts and the Efforts of the Superintendent ‘Brethren,’” Constructing the Past, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, p. 12.

  [>] “parsimony” was “the worst”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 104.

  [>] “intelligent sympathy”: Ibid., p. 99.

  [>] “vagrant, degraded”: Ibid., p. 98.

  [>] “openings to a better”: Ibid., p. 99.

  [>] “careless scrutiny”: Ibid., pp. 99–100.

  [>] “a school”: Ibid., p. 100.

  [>] “show[ed] by their”: Ibid., p. 101.

  [>] “no eye”: Ibid., p. 101.

  [>] “one of the gloomiest”: Ibid., p. 102.

  [>] “I have always”: FLIV, p. 46.

  [>] “women like myself”: Quoted in CFII, p. 205.

  [>] “receive the punishment”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 102.

  [>] “to aid”: FLVI, p. 359.

  [>] “for those”: Francis B. Dedmond, “The Letters of Caroline Sturgis to Margaret Fuller,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1988 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 329.

  [>] “made acceptable”: Quoted in Susan Belasco Smith, “Margaret Fuller in New York: Private Letters, Public Texts,” Documentary Editing, vol. 18, no. 3, September 1996, p. 66; ten dollars: CFII, p. 198. See also Paula Kopacz, “Feminist at the ‘Tribune’: Margaret Fuller as Professional Writer,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1991 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), pp. 119–39.

  [>] “an excellent”: John Wesley Thomas, ed., The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller (Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 145.

  [>] “mutual education”: FLVI, p. 359.

  [>] “scenes” . . . “materials”: Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, eds., “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 102, 1990, pp. 77, 101.

  [>] “would have suggested”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, pp. 99–100.

  [>] “Do you want”: MF, “Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts,” New-York Daily Tribune, June 19, 1845, C143 in CD-ROM accompanying Margaret Fuller, Critic.

  [>] “chief mental focus”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 2.

  [>] “more fine”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 86.

  [>] “the old spirit”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 8.

  [>] “the contributions”: Ibid., p. 29.

  [>] “nature” . . . “excommunicated” . . . “regret”: Ibid., pp. 94, 96, 97.

  [>] “performed with a degree”: MF, “Music in New-York,” New-York Daily Tribune, January 18, 1845, C088 in CD-ROM accompanying Margaret Fuller, Critic.

  [>] “There is no reason”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, pp. 102–3.

  [>] “worthy the admiration”: “Music in New-York.” Background sources for New York City in the 1840s: Lydia Maria Child, Letters from New-York, Bruce Mills, ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998); Gloria Deak, Picturing New York: The City from Its Beginnings to the Present (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); John Doggett Jr., The Great Metropolis; or, New York in 1845 (New York: John Doggett Jr., 1845); Eric Homberger, The Historical Atlas of New York City (New York: Henry Holt, 1994); Eric Homberger, Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscienc
e in Old New York (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994); George K. Lankevich, American Metropolis: A History of New York City (New York: New York University Press, 1998); Howard B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore, Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Nathan Silver, Lost New York (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967); Edward K. Spann, The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981); François Weil, A History of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004); Norval White, New York: A Physical History (New York: Atheneum, 1987).

  [>] “go-ahead, fearless adroitness”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 127.

  [>] “mother of men”: ELIII, p. 19.

  [>] unkempt newspaperman: See Robert C. Williams, Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom (New York: New York University Press, 2006), p. xii.

  [>] “thickly settled”: FLIII, p. 250.

  [>] “Grahamites and Hydropaths”: FLIV, p. 45.

  [>] “strong potations” . . . “Skin”: Quoted in CFII, pp. 218, 219.

  [>] “a winding”: Quoted in Scenes from the Life of a City, pp. 214–15.

  [>] “I like living”: FLIV, p. 51.

  [>] “in his habits”: FLIV, p. 56.

  [>] “what turmoil”: Horace Greeley, quoted in CFII, p. 199.

  [>] “flying on the paper”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, pp. 14–15.

  16. “A HUMAN SECRET, LIKE MY OWN”

  [>] “like an inspired”: Rebecca Spring and MF, quoted in CFII, pp. 206–7.

  [>] “dismal inky”: Richard Henry Dana Jr., quoted in CFII, p. 197.

  [>] “to make”: ELIII, p. 268.

  [>] “fine head” . . . “her large gray”: Quoted in CFII, p. 216.

  [>] “not pleasant”: FLIV, pp. 59–60.

  [>] “merry season”: MF, Essays on American Life and Letters, Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), p. 277.

  [>] “even those”: Ibid., p. 279.

  [>] “how very little”: Ibid., p. 280.

  [>] “partial inferiority”: FLIV, p. 158.

  [>] “supersensual” science: Essays on American Life, pp. 271–72.

  [>] “this ugly”: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 137.

  [>] “a prospect”: FLVI, p. 356.

  [>] “rule of life” . . . “means by which”: Essays on American Life, pp. 273, 272.

  [>] Woman’s “intuitions”: WNC, p. 91.

  [>] “we do not”: MF, “Review of Theodore Leger, Animal Magnetism; or, Psychodunamy,” New-York Daily Tribune, May 30, 1846, C294 in CD-ROM accompanying Judith Matson Bean and Joel Myerson, eds., Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).