Author

Frederick Marryat(1792–1848)

Frederick Marryat is documented in Fuller’s letters (1839). One work is named, all in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement: ReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1839

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Frederick Marryat’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1839Work not namedAttested
“chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels, and I read the debates in Congress”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
Same explicit sentence continuing to Marryat's novels.

In Fuller’s words

“After I went to bed I would read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels, and I read the debates in Congress.”

Peter Simple or Mr. Midshipman Easy · Letter to Caroline Sturgis · 1839

When Fuller engaged with Frederick Marryat

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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

Marryat in Fuller’s reading world

Peter Simple or Mr. Midshipman EasyInferred1839

Documentary evidence

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

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p59

read

“After I went to bed I would read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels, and I read the debates in Congress.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller names "Maryatt's novels" (plural) as bedtime reading without specifying a particular title; Marryat was a prolific English naval novelist whose popular works from this period included Peter Simple (1834) and Mr.