“We are in the habit now of laughing when this book is named, as if it were a representative of what is most absurdly stilted or bombastic, but now, in reading, my mature mind was differently impressed from what I expected, and the infatuation with which childhood and early youth regard this book and its companion.”
Author
Jane Porter
Jane Porter is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). 2 distinct works are named, all in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
- Engagement
- AnalyzedReadMentioned
- Present in
- Essays
- Documented
- 1846
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 →
In Fuller’s words
“The characters and dialogue are, indeed, out of nature, but the sentiment that animates them is pure, true, and no less healthy than noble. Here is a bad drawing, bad drama, but good music to which the unspoiled heart will always echo, even when the intellect has learned to demand a better organ for its communication.”
When Fuller engaged with Jane Porter
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Porter in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1846—
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI.
“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI.”analyzed · read2 selected passages
“The characters and dialogue are, indeed, out of nature, but the sentiment that animates them is pure, true, and no less healthy than noble.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 December 1846.