Author

Joseph Priestley(1733–1804)

Joseph Priestley is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, all in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedMentioned
Present in
Books
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Joseph Priestley

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Priestley in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p52
excerpted
“I have just read Priestley's Life of himself. It is an honest, plain, and somewhat dry account of a well-spent life.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Quoted from Mackintosh's diary as cited in the biography.