WorkEdward Bulwer-Lytton

“Death of Sir Walter Scott," New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, vol. 35: 300–304”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) · October 1832

InferredHudspeth identified it as Bulwer's "Death of Sir Walter Scott" in New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 35 (October 1832).

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“I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much—though his objections to Scott's want of mannerism”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
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Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much—though his objections to Scott's want of mannerism, want of style as he calls it amused me and I think he would find it difficult to support his assertion that all great prose writers have had style”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified it as Bulwer's "Death of Sir Walter Scott" in New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 35 (October 1832).