Author
Samuel Richardson is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1829–1847). 4 distinct works are named, most often in The Dial, 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 →
“The ‘Miss Clarisse’ of the French drama is a feeble and partial reproduction of the heroine of Richardson; indeed the original in all its force of intellect and character would have been too much for the charming Rose Cheny”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I will tell you about Lovelace. His character in the book is shown out to the eye gradually and with great skill...”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified Robert Lovelace as the principal male character in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
“Meta, the wife of Klopstock, one of Germany's most celebrated poets, is doubtless well known to many of our readers through the beautiful letters to Samuel Richardson, the novelist”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names Samuel Richardson as “the novelist” and alludes to the published correspondence with Meta Moller Klopstock (1728–1758), which was later included in the Cambridge Edition of Richardson’s Correspondence. The identification of Richardson as a novelist suggests his literary works are the primary reading reference.
The identification of Richardson as a novelist suggests his literary works are the primary reading reference.
“Observe that the good man of Sue is pure as Sir Charles Grandison... Apropos to Sir Charles, women are accustomed to be told by men that the reform is to come from them...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“When Richardson was publishing his Clarissa, which he did in separate columns, he received letters from all sorts of people entreating him”
Fuller, Margaret. "Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 September 1845. · 24 September 1845
“One day it was the characters in one of Richardson's novels; and most solemnly we "my deared" each other with richest brocade of affability, and interchanged in long, stiff phrase our sentimental secrets and prim opinions.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 December 1845. · 27 December 1845
“The ‘Miss Clarisse’ of the French drama is a feeble and partial reproduction of the heroine of Richardson; indeed the original in all its force of intellect and character would have been too much for the charming Rose Cheny”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . X." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 March 1847. · 3 March 1847