Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Frances Trollope(1779–1863)

Frances Trollope is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1843–1848). One work is named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
QuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Books · Essays
Documented
1843–1848
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

“Mrs. Trollope relates the particulars of three women, who, at different periods, whilst under the influence of a momentary paroxysm of delirium, or suicidal frenzy, precipitated themselves from the spire of Strasburg cathedral.”
The North American Review. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Frances Trollope

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York2records
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.

Trollope in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“we had this bit of experience, else might we have pronounced all Trollopian records of the kind to be inventions of pure malice.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller uses 'Trollopian records' as a recognized cultural reference ? Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) was the notorious and widely-read British account of American frontier manners, which cataloged precisely the kind of domestic indecorums (overcrowded sleeping quarters, shared facilities, rough tavern life) that Fuller has just experienced.

1845—

The North American Review.

“The North American Review.”
quoted · read
“Mrs.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845. · 13 January 1845

1848—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIX.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIX.”
mentioned
“Can any thing be more sadly expressive of times out of joint than the fact that Mrs. Trollope is a resident in Italy?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIX." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 January 1848. · 29 January 1848

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIV.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIV.”
mentioned
“they have the vulgar familiarity of Mrs. Trollope -without her vivacity, the cockneyism of Dickens without his graphic power and love of the odd corners of human nature.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIV." New-York Daily Tribune, .