Margaret Fuller (70 page)

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

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   “from the blood”:
SOL,
p. 41.

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

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   “the body”:
FLIII,
p. 133.

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

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   “most engaging”:
FLVI,
p. 348.

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

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   “he felt”:
SOL,
p. 75.

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   “beautiful looking”:
FLIII,
p. 135.

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   “medicinal virtues”:
SOL,
p. 41.

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   “sweet melancholy”:
SOL,
p. 74.

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   “delicacy of manners”:
SOL,
p. 112.

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   “the educated”:
SOL,
p. 109.

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

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   “vast flowery”:
FLIII,
p. 169.

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   “mode of cultivation”:
SOL,
p. 29.

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   “the harmony”:
FLIII,
p. 169.

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   “rightful lords”:
SOL,
p. 29.

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

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   “omnivorous traveler”:
SOL,
p. 29.

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   “for affection’s”:
SOL,
pp. 38–39.

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

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   “canoe-men in pink”:
SOL,
p. 150.

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   “sportsman stories”:
SOL,
p. 152.

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   “such childish”:
SOL,
p. 152.

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   “I have given”:
FLVI,
p. 151.

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

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

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   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.

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   “look abroad”:
FLVI,
p. 143.

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

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

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   “those dim”:
FLIII,
p. 52.

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   “the student”:
FLIII,
p. 151.

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   “poor shady”:
FLIII,
p. 151.

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   “have sweets”:
FLII,
p. 65.

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

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

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   “in addressing”:
OMI,
p. 130.

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

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   “you would”:
FLIII,
pp. 160–61.

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   “friend at once”:
FLVI,
p. 260.

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   “the Public”:
FLIII,
p. 196.

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   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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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   “seems to be”:
FLIII,
p. 204.

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   “world of infants”:
FLIII,
p. 211.

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   “men do not feel”:
FLIII,
p. 175.

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   “Girls are”:
FLIII,
p. 197.

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   “I love best”:
FLVI,
pp. 143–44.

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   “live truly”:
FLVI,
p. 144.

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

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

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   inducing “palsy”:
FLVI,
p. 144.

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   sixty dollars:
FLIII,
p. 181.

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

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

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   “keen pangs”:
FLIV,
p. 66.

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

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   “there is no”:
FLIII,
p. 161.

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   “Life
is
worth”:
FLIII,
p. 187.

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

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

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

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

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   “independent life”:
FLIII,
p. 199.

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   “get beyond”:
FLIII,
p. 229.

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   “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.

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   “disappointments” in Waldo:
FLIII,
p. 209.

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   “Life here”:
FLIII,
p. 213.

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

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   “adventurous course”:
FLIII,
p. 210.

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

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   “degradation” had less:
FLIII,
p. 223.

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   “so pleasantly”:
FLIII,
p. 242.

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   thirty thousand subscribers:
CFII,
p. 195.

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   “already eminent”:
CFII,
p. 197.

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   “the wiser mind”:
FLVI,
p. 343.

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

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   “the busy”:
FLIII,
p. 245.

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   “spinning out”:
FLIII,
p. 241.

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   “When it comes to”:
FLIII,
p. 143.

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   “a delightful”:
FLIII,
pp. 241–42.

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

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   “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.

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   “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.

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   “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.

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

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   first printing:
FLIV,
p. 56.

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

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

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   “There exists”:
WNC,
p. 22.

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   “While any one”:
WNC,
p. 10.

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   “interests were”:
WNC,
p. 156.

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   “no home”:
WNC,
p. 25.

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   “as a nature”:
WNC,
p. 27.

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   “live without”:
WNC,
p. 25.

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   “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.

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   “The world”:
WNC,
p. 95.

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

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   “‘Girls can’t’”:
WNC,
p. 33.

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   “Let it not”:
WNC,
p. 31.

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   “If she knows”:
WNC,
p. 107.

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   “better companions”:
WNC,
p. 84.

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   “must marry”:
WNC,
p. 58.

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   “an adopted child”:
WNC,
p. 59.

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   “seal of degradation”:
WNC,
p. 66.

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   “belong[s] to”:
WNC,
p. 162.

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   “there is no”:
WNC,
p. 51.

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   “household partnership”:
WNC,
p. 60.

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   “intellectual companionship”:
WNC,
p. 60.

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   “work together”:
WNC,
p. 67.

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   “in public life”:
WNC,
p. 60.

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

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   “seeking clearness”:
WNC,
p. 62.

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   “highest grade”:
WNC,
p. 69.

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   “the thirst”:
WNC,
p. 157.

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   “reverent love”:
WNC,
pp. 70–71.

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   “need to be”:
FLII,
pp. 159–60.

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

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

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   “his only true”:
WNC,
pp. 71–72.

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   “chastity and equality”:
WNC,
p. 120.

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

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   “excessive devotion”:
WNC,
p. 161.

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   “so entirely”:
WNC,
p. 146.

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

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   “men never”:
WNC,
p. 30.

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   “the ennui”:
WNC,
p. 160.

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   “absorbed” in marriage:
WNC,
p. 162.

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

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   “compromise” and “helplessness”:
WNC,
p. 107.

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

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   “sign of the times”:
WNC,
p. 82.

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

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

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

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   “Saints and geniuses”:
WNC,
p. 86.

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   “much greater”:
WNC,
p. 159.

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   “remove arbitrary”:
WNC,
p. 158.

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   “We would”:
WNC,
p. 26.

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   “men do
not
”:
WNC,
pp. 158–59.

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

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   “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.

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   “male and female”:
WNC,
p. 103.

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   “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.