Author

William Shenstone(1714–1763)

William Shenstone is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Early Reading Notes on Ballads, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
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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 →

When Fuller engaged with William Shenstone

No datable encounters with Shenstone, William have been catalogued yet.

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

Shenstone in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Early Reading Notes on Ballads

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“The "graceful simplicity" of Shenstone's Jimmy Dawson / is vapid and spiritless to my taste.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.