Author
Thomas Noon Talfourd is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1837–1846). One work is named, most often in Letter to Margarett C. Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“stand such as Maturin's Bertram, Talfourd's Ion, and (now before me) Longfellow's Spanish Student. [...] Ion, also, can be acted, though its principal merit is in the nobleness of design, and in details it is too elaborate for the scene. Still it does move and melt”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“she is very pleasing in her manners, talks very intelligently and read to us some of the last scenes in Ion.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller heard the actress Ellen Tree read aloud "some of the last scenes in Ion," which Hudspeth identified as Thomas Noon Talfourd's Ion (London, 1835), distinguishing it from Euripides' Ion.
“Eliza, Cary, Proctor, Cunningham, Bowring, Barton, Hazlitt, Elton, Hartley, Coleridge, Talfourd; Soane, Horace Smith, Reynolds, Poole, Clare, and Thomas Benyon”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 August 1845. · 9 August 1845
“stand such as Maturin's Bertram, Talfourd's Ion, and (now before me) Longfellow's Spanish Student.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
“His characters, like Miss Baillie's or Talfourd's, narrate rather than express their life.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p145
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p145; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Barry Cornwall's verses and Talfourd's Ion are to poetry”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.