Author
Tobias George Smollett is documented in Fuller’s letters (1850). One work is named, all in Letter to Emelyn Story, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Let me add two more in the same Winifred Jenkins method.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified Winifred Jenkins as a maid in Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (1771), prominent for her comic misnomers and bad spellings.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Smollett, Fielding, and the like, deal too broadly with the coarse actualities of life.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred In her reflections on her father’s library, Fuller groups Tobias Smollett with Fielding, noting their treatment of "coarse actualities of life" as alienating rather than charming.