Author
Caroline Norton is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, and manuscripts (1845–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Notes, 1st Issue of the Dial, 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 →
“Mrs. Norton writes a poem on the sufferings of the poor, and in it she, as episode, tunefully laments the sufferings of the Emperor of all the Russias for the death of a beloved daughter.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Mrs. Norton writes a poem on the sufferings of the poor, and in it she, as episode, tunefully laments the sufferings of the Emperor of all the Russias for the death of a beloved daughter.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "First of August, 1845." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 August 1845. · 1 August 1845
“as we doubt Mrs. Norton’s Child of the Islands would not have vigor and purity of mental sense even to sympathize with”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prince’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1845. · 13 August 1845
“The Hon. Mrs. Norton and Prince, “a reed-maker for weavers,” meet upon a common theme—the existing miseries and possible relief of that most wretched body, England’s Poor”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Child of the Islands . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 26 July 1845. · 26 July 1845
“THE CHILD OF THE ISLANDS By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. London: Chapman and Hull.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“The female lyricists / of England, Mrs Norton / Mrs Hemans &c / enlarge on an / article in the Tribune”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes, 1st Issue of the Dial." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086.
“The female lyrists / of England, Mrs Norton / Mrs Hemans & c / enlarge on an / Article in the Tribune”
Fuller, Margaret. "Outline for a Collected Volume." Houghton Library, Harvard University.