Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John MainwaringInferred

John Mainwaring is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, most often in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

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1846
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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“When they came to the organ, not a doubt remained as to which the preference belonged. Scarlatti himself declared the superiority of his antagonist, and owned that until he had heard him upon this instrument, he had no conception of his powers.”
Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel · Lives of the Great Composers · 1846

When Fuller engaged with John Mainwaring

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Mainwaring in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p57
excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read
“Let us pass to the life of Handel. ... Both this and the Life of Handel I have seen only in the London”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Fuller refers multiple times to 'the Life of Handel' and states she 'has seen only the London' edition — most likely John Mainwaring's Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel (1760), the standard 18th/19th-century Handel biography. Fuller says she has seen 'the Life of Handel' only in a London edition.

1846—

Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”
quoted · read
“When they came to the organ, not a doubt remained as to which the preference belonged.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p235

Inferred Fuller relates the Handel–Scarlatti trial at the organ (“Scarlatti himself declared…”) without naming her source; the anecdote is identified with Mainwaring’s Memoirs of the Life of Handel (1760), where it is first printed.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p235; page given is to the 1869 reprint.