Margaret and Her Friends, or Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller Upon the Mythology of the Greeks and Its Expression of Art (1895)
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE REV. GEORGE RIPLEY
BEDFORD PLACE, BOSTON
BEGINNING MARCH 1, 1841
Reported by Caroline W. Healey
- Preface
Members of the Class
I. General Mythological Statement
II. General Statement Continued. R.W.E. Present1
III. Story From Novalis. Apollo
IV. Minerva. The Serpent
V. Venus and Psyche. R.W.E Present
VI. Cupid and Psyche. Margaret, and Elizabeth Hoar
VII. Pluto and Tartarus
VIII. Mercury and Orpheus. R.W.E. Present
IX. Hermes and Orpheus
X. Bacchus and the Demigods
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1 Emerson’s presence at Conversations II. V. and VIII. is noted above, because in his contribution to Margaret’s “Memoirs” he shows that his attendance made absolutely no impression on him. He states that there were but five Conversations, and that he was present only at the second.