Author
Edward Bulwer-Lytton is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and journals (1834–1846). 5 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much—though his objections to Scott's want of mannerism”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
Explicit 'I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much,' a dated personal reading encounter.
“I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much—though his objections to Scott's want of mannerism, want of style as he calls it amused me and I think he would find it difficult to support his assertion that all great prose writers have had style”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much—though his objections to Scott's want of mannerism, want of style as he calls it amused me and I think he would find it difficult to support his assertion that all great prose writers have had style”
Inferred Hudspeth identified it as Bulwer's "Death of Sir Walter Scott" in New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 35 (October 1832).
“Have you read his Pompeii or dont you read his works now?”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Tell Eugene I am charmed with Ernest Maltravers and think it Bulwer's best.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Nydia's love-song. E. L. Bulwer. / 1. / The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose / And the Rose loved one; / For who recks the wind where it blows? / Or loves not the sun / 2.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
The poem is transcribed in full across four stanzas, exactly matching the novel's text.
“I see Bulwer, Miss Martineau & Shakspeare are truer to nature than I could have supposed.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“[From, Stanzas addressed by Bulwer to Wordsworth.} ... William Blackwood and Sons. London and Edinburgh, 1842.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Fuller quotes stanzas 'addressed by Bulwer to Wordsworth' from a volume published by William Blackwood and Sons, London and Edinburgh, 1842. Fuller quotes several lines of verse attributed to Bulwer-Lytton and directed at Wordsworth, from a Blackwood's 1842 publication.
Fuller quotes several lines of verse attributed to Bulwer-Lytton and directed at Wordsworth, from a Blackwood's 1842 publication.
“In a lately published novel, " Night and Morning," Bulwer has”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p275
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p275; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“How must thy lone and lofty soul have gone Exulting on its way, beyond i.he loud Self-taunting mockery of the scoffers grown Tethered and dulled to Nature, in the crowd !”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869); page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p153
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p153; page given is to the 1869 reprint.