Margaret Fuller (63 page)

OM:
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli,
in two volumes. R. W. Emerson, J. F. Clarke, and W. H. Channing, eds. (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1852).

SOL:
Margaret Fuller,
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843,
Susan Belasco Smith, ed. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991).

VM:
Joan Von Mehren,
Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).

WNC:
Margaret Fuller,
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
(New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1845).

Manuscript Collections

Antiochiana: Robert Lincoln Straker typescript collection of Peabody family papers, Antioch College

Berg: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations

BPL: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Trustees of the Boston Public Library

FMW: Fuller Manuscripts and Works, Houghton Library, Harvard University

MHS: Massachusetts Historical Society

PSR: Swedenborgian House of Studies, Pacific School of Religion

Smith: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

PROLOGUE

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   “what is most”: WHC, “Papers,” BPL, quoted in
CFII,
p. 508.

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   “Nothing
personal
”: MF, “1849 Journal” bMS Am 1086 [4] FMW.

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   “first acquaintance”: Ibid., p. 3.

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   “The people”: Leona Rostenberg, ed., “Margaret Fuller’s Roman Diary,”
Journal of Modern History,
vol. 12, no. 2, June 1940, p. 213.

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   “Monstrous are the treacheries”: Ibid., p. 215.

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   “Rome is barricaded”: Ibid., p. 220.

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   “will not take off”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man
versus
Men. Woman
versus
Women,”
Dial,
vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 30.

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   a “fore-sayer”:
FLIII,
p. 106.

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   “the great radical dualism”: “The Great Lawsuit,” p. 43.

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   “There is no wholly”: Ibid.

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   “a woman whose”: Ibid., p. 29.

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   “fulness of being”: Ibid., p. 35.

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   “history of feeling”:
FLVI,
p. 76.

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   “represent the female”:
WNC,
p. 161.

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   “takes rank in society”:
FLIV,
p. 256.

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   “mind that insisted”:
FLV,
p. 301.

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   “life rushes”: MF,
Essays on American Life and Letters,
Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), p. 379.

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   “expansive fellowship”:
ELIII,
p. 394.

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   Nathaniel Hawthorne: For an in-depth treatment of the friendship of MF and Nathaniel Hawthorne, see Thomas R. Mitchell,
Hawthorne’s Fuller Mystery
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998).

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   “When a writer”: Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The House of the Seven Gables,
in
Collected Novels
(New York: Library of America, 1983), p. 351.

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   “we propose”: “The Great Lawsuit,” p. 10.

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   young “lovers”:
ELII,
p. 332.

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   “ardent and onward-looking”:
FLIII,
p. 156.

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   “genius” would be:
FLII,
p. 172.

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   “From a very”:
FLVI,
p. 134.

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   fifty thousand readers: “half a hundred thousand readers,”
FLIV,
p. 56.

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   “Another century”:
Dispatches,
p. 245.

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   “The scrolls”:
FLII,
p. 249.

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   “a little space”:
FLII,
p. 249.

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   “empowering me”:
FLII,
p. 187.

1. THREE LETTERS

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   “dear Father”:
FLI,
p. 79, original document fMS Am 1086 [9:1] FMW.

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   “severe though kind”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 12.

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   “
original,
” worthy: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 38.

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   “I have learned”:
FLI,
p. 81, original document fMS Am 1086 [9:3] FMW.

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   of her “
stile
”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 50.

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   “as near perfection”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 21.

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   “high scholar”:
OMI,
p. 14.

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   “on the stretch”:
OMI,
p. 15.

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   “absolutely no patience”:
OMI,
p. 17.

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   “I do not”:
FLI,
p. 81.

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   “To excel”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 17.

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   “speaks of”:
FLI,
p. 81.

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   “soft, graceful”:
OMI,
p. 14.

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   “severe sweetness”:
OMI,
p. 13.

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   “My first experience”:
OMI,
p. 14.

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   “She who would”:
OMI,
p. 14.

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   “delicate” in health:
OMI,
p. 17.

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   “with loud cries”:
OMI,
p. 13.

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   “I assure”:
FLI,
p. 91.

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   difficult, “opinionative”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 67.

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The Deserted Village:
FLI,
p. 91.

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   “
profoundly
into”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 21.

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   “my mother’s hand”:
OMI,
p. 23.

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   “flower-like nature”:
OMI,
p. 12.

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   “Do not let”:
FLI,
p. 91.

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   “power to disengage”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 36. Murray’s discussion of MF’s early reading has been formative to my work, and I refer readers to her chapter “The World of Books,”
MMM,
pp. 33–44.

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   “a new tale”:
FLI,
p. 94.

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   “P S I do not like”:
FLI,
p. 95.

2. ELLEN KILSHAW

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   signed “Margaret”:
FLI,
p. 89.

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   “first friend”:
OMI,
p. 32.

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   “an English lady”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “Elegant and captivating”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “comfortable” yet “very ugly”:
OMI,
p. 23.

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   “unsavory” soap factory: MF’s brother Richard F. Fuller,
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller
(Boston: privately printed, 1936), p. 8.

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   “child of masculine energy”: 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. 115.

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   “violent bodily exercise”:
OMI,
p. 41.

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   “a habit and a passion”:
OMI,
p. 22.

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   “the girls supposed”:
OMI,
p. 41.

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   “given up”:
OMI,
p. 41.

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   presenting a “
mesquin
”:
OMI,
p. 23.

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   “a new apparition”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “the river”:
FLIII,
p. 81.

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   “atmosphere of”:
OMI,
p. 41.

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   “I saw”:
OMI,
p. 39.

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   “face most fair” . . . “graceful pliancy”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “my first real”:
OMI,
p. 34.

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   “growing beneath”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “heralds of”:
OMI,
p. 34.

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   “from a distance”:
OMI,
p. 35.

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   “reserve” . . . “self-possession” . . . “timidity”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “
All
accomplishments”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 20.

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   “the heir of all”:
OMI,
p. 14.

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   “no woman dares”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 9.

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   “so well pleased”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 19.

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   “
delicious
hour[s]”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 14.

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   “the man looks”:
WNC,
p. 59.

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   “piece of good fortune”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 16.

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   “throbs of ambition”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 17.

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   “hasty temper”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 11.

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   “a tyrant”:
OMI,
p. 28.

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   “such an overflowing”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 18.

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   “
more romantically
”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 18.

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   “your absent
Lord
”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 24.

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   “disobedient spouse”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 24.

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   “wayward” behavior: Quoted in
MMM,
pp. 19–20.

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   “you in my eye”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 19.

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   “highly cultivated”:
OMI,
p. 33.

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   “so surprising”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 41.

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   “better than my life”:
FLI,
p. 94.

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   “the lonely child”:
OMI,
p. 39.

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   “the voice”:
OMI,
p. 38.

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   “a region”:
OMI,
p. 39.

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  “shallow and delicate”:
OMI,
p. 39.

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   “melancholy”:
OMI,
p. 40.

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   “would not be pacified”:
OMI,
p. 40.

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   “All joy”:
OMI,
p. 40.

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   “In the more”:
OMI,
p. 12.

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   “my
pair
of Ms”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 13.

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   “effeminate”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 29.

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   “I am rather”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 22.

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   “she could never”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 54.

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   “Sarah Margarett”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 18.

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   “a very feasible”:
FLI,
p. 115.

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   “impertinent”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 21.

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   “I see in Sarah M.”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 20.

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   “I have long thought” . . . “I intend”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 22.

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   “to make”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 32.

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   “Whenever I find”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 38.

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   “how deep”:
FLII,
p. 176.

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   “‘Madeira’ seemed”:
OMI,
p. 36.

3. THEME: “POSSUNT QUIA POSSE VIDENTUR”

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   “They can conquer”: I have used Dryden’s 1697 translation of line 231 from book five of Virgil’s
Aeneid,
the translation MF would have known.

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   “Theme corrected”: bMS Am 1086A, FMW.

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   “man of business”:
OMI,
p. 14.

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   “demanded accuracy”:
OMI,
p. 17.

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   “had no conception”:
OMI,
pp. 16–18.

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   “I thought”:
OMI,
p. 22.

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   “Beauties of Nature”: fMS Am 1086 [9] FMW.

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   “too much strength”:
OMI,
p. 18.

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   “loved to conquer”:
OMI,
p. 22.

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   “a victim”:
OMI,
pp. 15–16.

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   “came with”: Oliver Wendell Holmes, quoted in
CFI,
p. 46.

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   “a revelation” and further Holmes commentary: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 46;
VM,
p. 18.

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   “Miss Mary”:
FLI,
p. 96.

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   her “deficiencies”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 48.

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   “very corpulent”: Quoted in
MMM,
p. 48.

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   a “robust” girl: Frederic Henry Hedge, quoted in
CFI,
p. 65.

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   “polite forms”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 56.

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   “grown up gentlemen”:
FLI,
p. 118.

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   “display” her “attainments”: TF, quoted in
CFI,
p. 63.

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   “eye of Intelligence”:
FLI,
p. 114.