Author
William Hickling Prescott is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1846). One work is named, most often in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Mr. Prescott, for instance, has been greeted with as much warmth abroad as here. We are not disposed to undervalue his industry and power of clear and elegant arrangements The richness and freshness of his materials is such that a sense of enchantment must be felt in their contemplation.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“A graceful and meaning figure is that introduced to us by Mr. Prescott, in the Conquest of Mexico, in the Indian girl Marina”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“Mr. Prescott, for instance, has been greeted with as much warmth abroad as here.”
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846
“Mr. Prescott, for instance, has been greeted with as much warmth abroad as here.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p304
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p304; page given is to the 1869 reprint.