Author

John Wilson (Christopher North)

John Wilson (Christopher North) is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay. The Foresters . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
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Essays
Documented
1845
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

“Christopher North said in the Noctes Ambrosianæ that the world could never want a subject for discussion, since, when all others were exhausted, still would remain the question “Whether or no is Pope a poet.”
Noctes Ambrosianæ · Ole Bull. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with John Wilson (Christopher North)

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York3records
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Wilson in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Ole Bull.

“Ole Bull.”
quoted · read
“Christopher North said in the Noctes Ambrosianæ that the world could never want a subject for discussion, since, when all others were exhausted, still would remain the question “Whether or no is Pope a poet.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Ole Bull." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 October 1845. · 1 October 1845

1845—

The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay. The Foresters . . .

“The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay. The Foresters . . .”
analyzed · read2 selected passages
“THE TRIALS OF MARGARET LYNDSAY. THE FORESTERS, by Prof. WILSON. For sale by Wm. H. Graham, New-York.”
“We turn over with pleasant recollections these leaves. The mind of Wilson was a shining and still more a burning light for us for so long a period”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay. The Foresters . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 July 1845.