Margaret Fuller
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[>] “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.
[>] “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.