Author
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Thomas Hood., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 →
“A little higher stood those, who excelled in invention of plots, preg- nant crises, or brilliant point of dialogue, but both degraded the drama, Sheridan scarcely less than Gibber; and Garrick and the Kembles, while they lighted up the edifice, left slow fire for its destruction.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“as when Sheridan, on such an occasion, opened his lips for the first time to say that "he liked currant jelly”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 July 1845. · 18 July 1845
“A little higher stood those, who excelled in invention of plots, preg- nant crises, or brilliant point of dialogue, but both degraded the drama, Sheridan scarcely less than Gibber; and Garrick and the Kembles, while they lighted up the edifice, left slow fire for its destruction.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p116
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p116; page given is to the 1869 reprint.