Margaret Fuller

by Megan Marshall

  [>] “patience” . . . “more rapid”: Essays on American Life, pp. 273, 276.

  [>] “free from prejudice”: “Review of Theodore Leger.”

  [>] “no sleep”: FLIV, p. 59.

  [>] reports from friends: FLIV, p. 61n.

  [>] “held his right hand”: FLIV, p. 61n.

  [>] “a power”: “Review of Theodore Leger.”

  [>] “what I meet”: FLIV, p. 59.

  [>] “stronger passions”: WNC, p. 136.

  [>] “a truly happy”: FLIV, p. 65.

  [>] “the new knowledge”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 14.

  [>] meeting had taken place: James Nathan, letter dated 1873, in Julia Ward Howe, ed., Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845–1846 (New York: D. Appleton, 1903), p. 4.

  [>] of her “beloved”: FLIV, p. 82; James Nathan’s travel letters in the Tribune: FLIV, pp. 146, 159.

  [>] “nameless relation”: FLIV, p. 75.

  [>] “some day”: FLIV, p. 47.

  [>] “the utmost”: WNC, p. 55.

  [>] “prized . . . both as a warning”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, pp. 57–58.

  [>] “there are”: FLIV, p. 95.

  [>] “boldness, simplicity”: FLIV, p. 74.

  [>] “never know” . . . “wholly”: FLIV, p. 65.

  [>] “wish to hear”: FLIV, p. 62.

  [>] “show me how”: FLIV, p. 47.

  [>] “restless sad”: FLIV, p. 100.

  [>] “my mind”: FLIV, p. 52.

  [>] “twenty four”: FLIV, p. 68.

  [>] “my dear”: FLIV, p. 64.

  [>] “these little”: FLIV, p. 65.

  [>] “last Winter’s”: FLIV, pp. 66–67.

  [>] “one feels”: FLIV, p. 62.

  [>] “suffer an untimely”: FLIV, p. 66.

  [>] “there is to be”: FLIV, p. 65.

  [>] “a cold faintness”: FLIV, p. 69.

  [>] “I love sadness”: 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. 70.

  [>] “an injured woman”: FLIV, p. 68.

  [>] “broken through”: FLIV, p. 67.

  [>] “English maiden”: FLIV, p. 191.

  [>] “deserted” a woman: Rebecca Spring, quoted in CFII, p. 223.

  [>] “I have elected”: FLIV, p. 70.

  [>] “Could the heart”: FLIV, pp. 68–70.

  [>] “That I know”: FLIV, p. 67.

  [>] “the path”: FLIV, pp. 69–70.

  [>] “The golden time”: FLIV, p. 70.

  [>] she draped: FLIV, p. 114.

  [>] “I am with you”: FLIV, pp. 72–73.

  [>] “approached” Margaret “so nearly”: FLIV, p. 75.

  [>] “Yesterday was”: FLIV, p. 77.

  [>] “the sweet”: FLIV, p. 73.

  [>] “earth-stain” ever be: FLIV, p. 77.

  [>] “It seemed the work”: FLIV, pp. 75–76.

  [>] the man of “force”: FLIV, p. 100.

  [>] “‘the dame’”: FLIV, p. 78.

  [>] “so much”: FLIV, p. 75.

  [>] “that if Margaret”: FLIV, p. 76.

  [>] “crave” all the more: FLIV, p. 87.

  [>] “noble enough”: FLIV, pp. 82–83.

  [>] “come tomorrow”: FLIV, p. 102. Although the source of Margaret’s quotation from Novalis is not known, she may have been offering a loose translation of the closing lines of his poem “Astralis,” which include “Das Herz als Asche niederfaellt”—“The heart, as ashes, falls down.” I am grateful to Yu-jin Chang for suggesting this possible attribution.

  [>] “Platonic affection”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 77.

  [>] “Your views”: Ibid.

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

  [>] “read not”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 77.

  [>] “childish rest”: FLIV, p. 87.

  [>] “was not enough”: FLIV, p. 98.

  [>] “called on for wisdom”: FLIV, p. 137.

  [>] “and now am”: FLIV, p. 98.

  [>] “the crimson ones”: FLIV, p. 98.

  [>] “works which”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 57.

  [>] “get out”: FLIV, p. 87.

  [>] “but a mortal”: FLIV, p. 95.

  [>] “able to stand”: WNC, p. 161.

  [>] “life seems”: FLIV, p. 97.

  [>] “so much for me”: FLIV, p. 99.

  [>] “mein liebste”: FLIV, p. 96.

  [>] “since you have”: FLIV, p. 104.

  [>] “carried . . . many”: FLIV, p. 91.

  [>] “must know”: FLIV, p. 99.

  [>] “you must always”: FLIV, p. 109.

  [>] “take it gently”: FLIV, p. 97.

  [>] “You have touched”: FLIV, p. 75.

  [>] was no “mistake”: FLIV, p. 107.

  [>] “your moon”: FLIV, p. 100.

  [>] “To the Face Seen in the Moon”: Quoted in CFII, p. 172.

  [>] “The Woman in me”: Quoted in CFII, p. 172.

  [>] a “queenly” moon: FLIV, p. 102.

  [>] “A human secret”: FLIV, p. 105.

  [>] “have no confidant”: FLIV, p. 159.

  [>] “we improve”: FLIV, p. 136.

  [>] “men have the privilege”: FLIV, p. 117.

  [>] “last letter”: FLIV, p. 111.

  [>] “magnetic power”: MF, Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), p. 83.

  [>] “it is well”: FLIV, pp. 110–11.

  [>] “I cannot do”: FLIV, p. 77.

  [>] “fair girl”: FLIV, p. 147.

  [>] “She must suffer”: FLIV, p. 139.

  [>] “who combined”: FLIV, p. 100.

  [>] “beautiful summer”: FLIV, p. 153.

  [>] “prettiest dresses”: FLIV, p. 148.

  [>] “the waters”: FLIV, p. 137.

  [>] “concentrated on”: FLIV, p. 141.

  [>] “indeed there are”: FLIV, p. 121.

  [>] “I have never”: FLIV, p. 141.

  [>] “no poem”: FLIV, p. 92.

  [>] “is it not by living”: FLIV, p. 141.

  [>] titled “Clairvoyance”: New-York Daily Tribune, July 23, 1845, C163 in CD-ROM accompanying Margaret Fuller, Critic.

  [>] “the affair”: FLIV, p. 146.

  [>] “poor maiden”: FLIV, p. 139.

  [>] “Now is the crisis”: FLIV, p. 147.

  [>] “tender and elevated”: FLIV, p. 134.

  [>] “the precious”: FLIV, pp. 134–35.

  [>] “a good miniature”: FLIV, p. 149.

  [>] “I like them better”: FLIV, p. 121.

  [>] “has rent from me”: Quoted in JMNXI, pp. 507–8.

  [>] “our moods”: FLIV, p. 167.

  [>] “seldom” . . . “because he”: Quoted in Joel Myerson, The New England Transcendentalists and The Dial (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1980), pp. 208, 209.

  [>] “very lonely”: FLIV, p. 167.

  [>] “just about”: FLIV, p. 163.

  17. LOST ON BEN LOMOND

  [>] “would have given”: FLIV, pp. 192–93.

  [>] “great mutual”: MF, “Thom’s Poems,” New-York Tribune, August 22, 1845, C175 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).

  [>] “If I persevere”: FLIV, p. 193.

  [>] “a desire for you”: FLIV, pp. 204–5.

  [>] “retouching” several: FLIV, p. 146.

  [>] “never be”: FLIV, p. 205.

  [>] “I am going”: FLIV, p. 195.

  [>] “full of distaste”: FLIV, p. 216n.

  [>] “and then thanks”: Quoted in VM, p. 227.

  [>] “brief and vivid”: FLIV, pp. 218–19.

  [>]
“very glad to find”: FLIV, p. 166.

  [>] “close calculator”: CFII, p. 271.

  [>] “The attractive force”: FLIV, p. 213.

  [>] “slower, solider”: Dispatches, p. 41.

  [>] “packages of seed”: MF, Essays on American Life and Letters, Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), p. 380.

  [>] “nine days of wonder”: Dispatches, p. 39.

  [>] “florid, fair”: Dispatches, p. 53.

  [>] “the real wants”: Dispatches, p. 57.

  [>] “merely the retirement”: Dispatches, p. 53.

  [>] “I care not”: Julia Ward Howe, ed., Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845–1846 (New York: D. Appleton, 1903), p. 187.

  [>] “drenching” equinoctial: Dispatches, p. 69.

  [>] “Life seems”: FLIV, p. 97.

  [>] “alone, as usual” . . . “I have no real”: OMII, pp. 166, 167.

  [>] nickname “Sibyl”: Bettine von Arnim, Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child, vol. 1 (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), p. 91. Margaret had also written a breathlessly admiring letter to the sixty-five-year-old von Arnim in 1840, before she had given up her project of writing a biography of Goethe. It appears that she received no answering letter. FLVI, pp. 328–29.

  [>] “Officer of Hussars”: Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child, vol. 1, p. 102.

  [>] “drink in”: Dispatches, p. 74.

  [>] “all fevered” and remainder of account: Dispatches, pp. 75–77.

  [>] “if I had not tried”: FLIV, p. 228.

  [>] “cessation of intercourse”: Quoted in CFII, p. 291.

  [>] “my Yankee method”: Dispatches, p. 77.

  [>] “life rushes”: MF, “Farewell,” New-York Daily Tribune, August 1, 1846; Essays on American Life, p. 379.

  [>] “the feeble”: MF, review of Thomas L. McKenney, in Memoirs, Official and Personal, New-York Daily Tribune, July 8, 1846, C308 in CD-ROM accompanying Margaret Fuller, Critic.

  [>] “heightening and deepening”: Essays on American Life, p. 380.

  [>] “she had seen”: JMNXI, p. 498.

  [>] “making some good”: FLIV, p. 188.

  [>] “glad Margaret Fuller”: Quoted in CFII, p. 278.

  [>] had just “eloped”: FLIV, p. 235.

  [>] “especially women”: Dispatches, p. 79.

  [>] “I found” . . . “persons of celebrity”: FLIV, pp. 239–40, 235.

  [>] “preconceived strong”: FLIV, p. 228.

  [>] “others of a radical”: FLIV, p. 235.

  [>] “habits of conversation”: FLIV, p. 228.

  [>] “a woman of tact”: Quoted in JMNXI, p. 471.

  [>] “European society”: FLIV, p. 245.

  [>] “chosen the profession”: FLIV, pp. 240–41.

  [>] “the miserable”: FLIV, p. 194.

  [>] “waited long enough”: 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. 109.

  [>] “full of grace”: FLIV, pp. 248–49.

  [>] “full of all nobleness”: Quoted in VM, p. 235.

  [>] “Beyond any”: Quoted in VM, p. 240.

  [>] “beauteous and pure”: FLIV, pp. 248–49.

  18. “ROME HAS GROWN UP IN MY SOUL”

  [>] “the city of pleasures”: FLIV, p. 252.

  [>] “getting dressed”: FLIV, p. 241.

  [>] “thick, flowered”: FLIV, p. 253.

  [>] “in a little”: FLIV, p. 229.

  [>] “the devotion”: FLIV, p. 241.

  [>] “openings were made”: FLIV, p. 244.

  [>] “only way”: FLIV, p. 234.

  [>] “besetting danger”: MF, Essays on American Life and Letters, Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), pp. 369–70.

  [>] “habit of feeding”: Dispatches, p. 128.

  [>] verbal “sharp-shooters”: Dispatches, p. 122.

  [>] “true kings”: Dispatches, p. 111.

  [>] Fourier’s estimate: WNC, p. 160.

  [>] “lives on the footing”: FLIV, p. 262n.

  [>] “Madame Sand”: FLIV, p. 256.

  [>] “La dame Americaine” and account of meeting with George Sand: OMII, pp. 194–98.

  [>] “the man I had”: FLIV, p. 261.

  [>] “the present”: Alexander Chodzko, quoted in CFII, p. 318.

  [>] “deep-founded mental connection”: FLIV, pp. 261–62.

  [>] “the very few”: FLV, p. 175.

  [>] “the only one”: FLV, p. 176.

  [>] “vow never”: Alexander Chodzko, quoted in CFII, p. 318.

  [>] “He affected”: FLIV, p. 263.

  [>] “an embodied”: Quoted in Dispatches, p. 6.

  [>] “How much time”: FLIV, p. 261.

  [>] “the attraction”: FLIV, p. 263; “frightful”: MF, “1849 Journal,” p. 2, bMS Am 1986 [4] FMW.

  [>] “I speak and act”: FLIV, p. 259.

  [>] “I do not know”: FLIV, p. 263.

  [>] “prostrate multitude”: William Ellery Channing, Conversations in Rome: Between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic (Boston: William Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1847), p. 6.

  [>] “natal day”: Dispatches, pp. 136–37.

  [>] “not great enough”: Rebecca Spring, quoted in VM, p. 254.

  [>] “perpetual hurra”: Dispatches, p. 136.

  [>] no sermon: Dispatches, p. 185.

  [>] “elaborate, expressive”: George Stillman Hillard, Six Months in Italy (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), p. 145. See also John Paul Russo, “The Unbroken Charm: Margaret Fuller, G. S. Hillard, and the American Tradition of Travel Writing on Italy,” in Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli, eds., Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), pp. 124–55.

  [>] “Rome is an all hacknied”: FLIV, p. 156.

  [>] “an earnest”: FLVI, p. 216.

  [>] “singular, fateful”: FLV, p. 292.

  [>] “little book”: FLV, p. 208.

  [>] “certainly did not”: Quoted in VM, p. 256.

  [>] “say nothing”: FLV, p. 291.

  [>] “simplicity” . . . “unspoiled nature”: FLV, p. 271.

  [>] “ignorant of great”: FLV, p. 248.

  [>] consider “nothing”: FLV, p. 291.

  [>] “excellent practical”: FLV, p. 261.

  [>] “I wish to be”: FLIV, p. 262.

  [>] “all of me”: Leopold Wellisz, “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, vol. 4, 1945–46, p. 99.

  [>] “offered me”: FLV, p. 292.

  [>] “the splendidest”: FLV, p. 305.

  [>] “I have not”: FLIV, p. 266.

  [>] “a person”: FLV, p. 250.

  [>] “Nature has been”: FLV, p. 271.

  [>] “an obscure”: FLV, p. 250.

  [>] “Giovanni,” as Margaret introduced: Rebecca Spring, quoted in VM, p. 261.

  [>] “gentle friend”: FLV, p. 248.

  [>] “never dream[ing]”: FLV, p. 292.

  [>] “Do not”: “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” p. 102.

  [>] “try to bring away”: “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” p. 103.

  [>] “A single”: FLIV, p. 273.

  [>] “I take interest”: FLIV, p. 271.

  [>] “a kind of springtime”: FLIV, p. 273.

  [>] “busy and intellectual”: FLIV, p. 291.

  [>] “a circle”: FLIV, p. 295.

  [>] “very profitable”: FLIV, p. 285.

  [>] “nearly killed”: FLIV, p. 286.

  [>] “quiet room”: FLIV, p. 283.

  [>] “advantage I derive”: FLIV, p. 284.

  [>] “Who can”: Dispatches, p. 140.

  [>] “I passed”: FLIV, p. 284.

  [>] “alone with glo
rious Italy”: FLIV, p. 290.

  [>] “a yearning”: FLIV, p. 277.

  [>] “a wicked irritation”: FLIV, p. 291.

  [>] “I begin”: FLIV, p. 293.

  [>] “In this Europe”: FLIV, p. 288.

  [>] “most fortunate”: FLIV, pp. 295–96.

  [>] “specimen of the really”: FLIV, p. 294.

  [>] “into contact”: FLIV, pp. 291–92.

  [>] “women in Europe”: FLVI, p. 48.

  [>] “fair and brilliant”: FLIV, p. 291.

  [>] “one of the emancipated”: FLIV, p. 311.

  [>] “pretty girls”: FLV, p. 42.

  [>] “account of his”: ELIII, pp. 377–78 and 378n.

  [>] “everlasting struggles”: Quoted in CFII, p. 324.

  [>] “one to whom”: ELIII, p. 377.

  [>] “these millennial”: ELIII, p. 400.

  [>] “run out”: ELIII, p. 394.

  [>] “O Sappho”: ELIII, p. 401.

  [>] “rugged” translation: ELIII, p. 183. For the translation, see J. Chesley Matthews, ed., “Emerson’s Translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova,” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 11, nos. 2, 3, 1957.

  [>] “almost unique”: JMNVIII, p. 369.

  [>] “the Polander”: ELIII, p. 400.

  [>] “Give All to Love”: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9, Poems (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 179–81.

  [>] “give all for love”: “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” pp. 105–6.

  [>] words were “harsh”: Ibid., p. 107.

  [>] “Do not forget”: Ibid., p. 106.

  [>] “Literature is not”: Ibid., pp. 107–8.

  [>] “The relationships”: Ibid., p. 106.

  [>] earned far less: FLIV, p. 256.

  [>] “Tumbledown-Hall”: ELIII, p. 411.

  [>] “peristyle gables”: ELIII, p. 413.

  [>] “we all succeed”: ELIII, p. 394.

  [>] “legal fraction”: FLV, p. 71.

  [>] “ten or even five”: FLIV, p. 300.

  [>] “My uncle”: FLV, pp. 70–71.

  [>] “302 “the inward man”: Quoted in CFII, p. 324.

  [>] “poor text”: FLIV, p. 297.

  [>] “Amid the prayers”: FLIV, p. 298n.

  [>] “American friend”: Quoted in VM, p. 252.

  [>] “You do not”: Quoted in CFII, p. 324.