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Dick Whittington and His Cat

Dick Whittington and His Cat (English chapbook tradition, earliest surviving prose version 1656) Inferred

Anonymous · English chapbook tradition, earliest surviving prose version 1656

InferredFuller does not name any specific text or author; the reference is to the well-known folk story. Title and author both inferred: Fuller alludes to the traditional English story of Dick Whittington (a poor boy who becomes Lord Mayor of London with the help of his cat) to satirize Roman nobles in coaches looking condescendingly down at the people — mimicking the posture of Whittington who rose from poverty to grandeur.

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Documented 1849

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Journal 1847–1849

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“Men who came to the Council were mostly nobles.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1847–1849." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 4.

Inferred Fuller does not name any specific text or author; the reference is to the well-known folk story. Title and author both inferred: Fuller alludes to the traditional English story of Dick Whittington (a poor boy who becomes Lord Mayor of London with the help of his cat) to satirize Roman nobles in coaches looking condescendingly down at the people — mimicking the posture of Whittington who rose from poverty to grandeur.