Author

William Stirling

William Stirling is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Browning’s Poems., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
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 →

When Fuller engaged with William Stirling

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Browning’s Poems.

“Browning’s Poems.”
mentioned2 selected passages
“This very difficult subject for tragedy engaged, at about the same time, the attention of Stirling.”
“Still of the two, Stirling’s conception of the character and conduct of the drama is far superior to that of Browning.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846.