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John Bunyan is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1845–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Julia Ward, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
“The Report of the Prison Association and that of the Inspectors of Mount Pleasant—(shade of Bunyan! what a strangely chosen name—or is it perhaps an omen of better times?)”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“They like the “Arabian Nights,” and “Pilgrim’s Progress,” and “Bunyan’s Emblems,” and Shakspeare, and the “Iliad” and “Odyssey;”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 February 1845. · 5 February 1845
“The Report of the Prison Association and that of the Inspectors of Mount Pleasant—(shade of Bunyan! what a strangely chosen name—or is it perhaps an omen of better times?)”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prison Discipline." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1846. · 25 February 1846
“Even in the case of Dante, “the Italian Pilgrim’s Progress” will be found not without use to the student.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Leigh Hunt’s Italian Poets." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 February 1846. · 18 February 1846
“Though he has not the verve of the very few to which this was the true, the natural path—as Bunyan with his “Divine Emblems”
Fuller, Margaret. "Lyra Innocentium." New-York Daily Tribune, 8 August 1846. · 8 August 1846
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“One has a Bunyan-like simplicity, others a soaring sweetness.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller describes one section of Ward's poem as having "Bunyan-like simplicity," invoking John Bunyan as a stylistic comparator without naming a specific work. While The Pilgrim's Progress is the most likely reference point for such 19th-century critical shorthand, Fuller does not cite the title.