Author
Quarterly Review is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks and manuscripts (1833–1836). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in General Reading Notes, 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 →
“Quarterly. rev. no 108 / [...] It is the delight of little men to calumniate the great in station and the great in intellect, and when a genius happens also to be a churchman, it is remarkable with what zeal every little slip-slop anecdote is received and retailed which has a tendency to lower the lofty mind and the sacred character to the vulgar level.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“It is remarkable that all autobiographers (except Lord Byron) are abundant in praise of their mothers.”
Fuller, Margaret. "General Reading Notes." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The specific number and article author have not been identified.
“Quarterly. rev.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
Inferred The passage copied concerns defence of genius and church character against calumniators. Confidence: PROBABLE — periodical and issue identified; article within the issue unknown.
Fuller labels the source 'Quarterly rev. no 108' — a specific article in that issue, unidentified further. Specific article unidentified. Confidence: PROBABLE — periodical and issue identified; article within the issue unknown.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“The Q. R. is very severe on Sir J. M's account of his tutor and redicules his gratitude.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Books, Children, and Faith." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred R.' (Quarterly Review), the leading British Tory literary journal, noting its harsh review of Mackintosh's account of his tutor as found in the Memoirs. The Quarterly Review published a review of the Memoirs of Sir James Mackintosh.