Author

William Henry Scrope(1772–1852)

William Henry Scrope is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Books
Documented
1843
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 William Henry Scrope

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Scrope in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

mentioned
“Hunting the deer is full of adventure, and needs only a Scrope to describe it to invest the western woods with _historic_ associations.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller mentions 'a Scrope' as the ideal author to invest western woods with 'historic associations' through hunting narrative. Scrope is named as a type ? the literary sportsman-writer.