Author
Sir Toby Matthew is documented in Fuller’s books. One work is named, all in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
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 Sir Toby Matthew’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Sir Toby Matthew's Portrait of Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle. She is of too high a mind and dignity, not only to seek, but almost to wish the friendship of any creature.”
Papers on Literature and Art
54-line excerpt range gives a sustained character portrait quoted from Sir Toby Matthew's Portrait.
“Sir Toby Matthew's Portrait of Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle. She is of too high a mind and dignity, not only to seek, but almost to wish the friendship of any creature.”
No datable encounters with Matthew, Sir Toby have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Sir Toby Matthew's Portrait of Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle. She is of too high a mind and dignity, not only to seek, but almost to wish the friendship of any creature.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.