Author

John Augustus Stone(1800–1834)Inferred

John Augustus Stone is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, all in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Books
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 John Augustus Stone

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.

Stone in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p112
read
“Virginius, the Hunchback, Metamora, are plays quite good enough for the stage at present”

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

Inferred Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags (1829) by John Augustus Stone, written for the actor Edwin Forrest.