Author

Thomas Roscoe

Thomas Roscoe is documented in Fuller’s letters (1829). One work is named, all in Letter to Unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
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1829
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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

“One of the finest fictions I recollect in those specimens of the Italian novelists,—which you, I think, read when I did,—noble, where it illustrated the Italian national spirit, is ruined by the English novelist, who has transplanted it to an uncongenial soil”
Italian Novelists · Letter to Unknown · 1829

When Fuller engaged with Thomas Roscoe

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Roscoe in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1829—

Letter to Unknown

p159
analyzed · read
“One of the finest fictions I recollect in those specimens of the Italian novelists,—which you, I think, read when I did,—noble, where it illustrated the Italian national spirit, is ruined by the English novelist, who has transplanted it to an uncongenial soil”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.