Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

William Henry Smith(1808–1872)

William Henry Smith is documented in Fuller’s letters and books (1843–1846). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
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Letters · Books
Documented
1843–1846
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“It was a good idea to send me the other plays. [Hudspeth fn. 1: Emerson had sent copies of William Henry Smith's Athelwold (London, 1842), J.W. Marston's Patrician's Daughter (London, 1841), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Spanish Student (Cambridge, 1843).]”
Athelwold · Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1843

When Fuller engaged with William Henry Smith

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1820
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1844
1846
1850

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

Smith in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p159
analyzed · read
“It was a good idea to send me the other plays. [Hudspeth fn. 1: Emerson had sent copies of William Henry Smith's Athelwold (London, 1842), J.W.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Hudspeth identified William Henry Smith's Athelwold as one of the plays Emerson sent Fuller on 5 November 1843, and it appears in Fuller's subsequent Dial review of new dramatic works.

1846—

The Modern Drama

“The Modern Drama”
mentioned
“Athelwold, a tragedy in five acts, by W. Smith, Esq.; William Blackwood and Sons. London and Edinburgh, 1842.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p109

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p109; page given is to the 1869 reprint.