Margaret Fuller (67 page)

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   “fine houses”:
FLIII,
p. 69.

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

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   “Ministry of Talking”:
VM,
p. 114.

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   “circle” of women:
FLII,
p. 87.

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   “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.

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   “These Greeks”:
FLII,
p. 40.

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   “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.

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   “state their doubts”:
FLII,
p. 86.

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   “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.

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

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   “era of experiment”:
FLIII,
p. 120.

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   of “illumination”:
FLIII,
p. 55.

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   “undefended by rouge”:
FLII,
p. 88.

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   “digressing into personalities”:
FLII,
p. 86.

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

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   “learn by blundering”:
FLII,
p. 88.

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

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

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   “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).

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

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   “magic about me”:
FLII,
p. 175.

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   rate of pay:
CFI,
p. 293.

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   “the most entertaining”:
OMI,
p. 308.

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   “finished and true”:
OMI,
p. 95.

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

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   “dreaded” the feeling:
FLII,
p. 97.

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

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   “the real trial”:
FLII,
p. 98.

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

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   “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.

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   “not as the Goddess”: Ibid.

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   “set forth”: Ibid.

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

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

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

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

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   “rather little”: Ibid., p. 210.

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   “kept clinging”:
FLII,
p. 97.

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   “seeking out”: “Comments on Margaret Fuller’s Conversations.”

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

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

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

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

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   “something higher”: Ibid., p. 214.

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

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   “Let men”: Ibid., p. 216.

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   “passionate wish”:
OMI,
p. 215.

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   “There I have”:
FLII,
p. 118.

11. “THE GOSPEL OF TRANSCENDENTALISM”

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   “It is true”:
FLVI,
p. 314.

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   “any other record”:
FLVI,
p. 310.

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   “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.

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   “I shall love”:
FLVI,
p. 315.

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

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

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

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   “dreamy, mystical”: Ibid., p. 26.

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   “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.

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

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

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

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   “As long as all”: Ibid., p. 300.

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   “They call it”: Ibid., p. 292.

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   “I begin”:
ELII,
pp. 168–69.

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

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

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

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   “There will be”: Ibid., p. 30.

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   “entire freedom”: Ibid., p. 38.

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

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   “A perfectly free”:
FLII,
p. 126.

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

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   “unemployed force”:
FLII,
p. 126.

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   “you prophecied”:
FLII,
p. 111.

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   “wish it to be”:
ELII,
p. 243.

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

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   “My position”:
FLII,
p. 109.

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

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   “the public”:
FLII,
p. 131.

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

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

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   “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.

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

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

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

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   “gladly contribute”:
ELII,
p. 229.

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   “your labors”:
ELII,
p. 243.

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   “this flowing”:
ELII,
p. 234.

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

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   “those parts”:
FLII,
p. 132.

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

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   “these gentlemen”:
JMNXI,
p. 471.

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

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

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   “power & skill”:
ELII,
p. 281.

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   “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.

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   “critics are poets”: Ibid., p. 7.

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   “He will teach”: Ibid., p. 11.

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   “In books”: Ibid., p. 10.

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   “I know”:
FLII,
pp. 124–25.

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

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   “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.

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   “When I look”:
FLII,
p. 127.

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   “adapt myself”:
FLII,
p. 125.

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   “We shall write”:
FLII,
p. 126.

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   “urge on”:
FLII,
p. 131.

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   “a large”:
FLIII,
p. 39.

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

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

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

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   “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.

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

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   “you will not”:
ELII,
p. 294.

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   “quite grand”:
FLII,
p. 135.

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   “in a new spirit”:
ELII,
p. 313.

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   “O queen”:
ELII,
p. 316.

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   “pleading . . . affinity”: “Orphic Sayings,” p. 85.

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

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

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   “one of the most”: Ibid., p. 51.

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   managed to “explode”:
ELII,
p. 305.

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

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   “the word
Dial
”:
ELII,
p. 311.

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

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   “I think when”:
FLII,
p. 152.

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   “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.

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   “the task”:
FLII,
p. 175.

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   “peace”:
FLII,
p. 181.

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

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   “truly interested”:
FLII,
p. 182.

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

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   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 Longmans, 1839), vol. 1, pp. 98–122.