WorkThomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (London Magazine, 1821; revised book edition London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822) Inferred

Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) · London Magazine, 1821; revised book edition London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822

Mentioned

Documented 1830–1845

Letters • Essays

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. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1830—

Letter to George T. Davis

p162

“[In Neal's obituary of Miller, as quoted by Hudspeth fn. 4:] "the living truth of what De Quincey had portrayed or tried to portray with the pencil of untruth in the celebrated Opium-Eater”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred In Neal's obituary of Miller, Neal compares Miller's lost London journal to De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, calling it "the living truth of what De Quincey had portrayed or tried to portray with the pencil of untruth in the celebrated Opium-Eater." Fuller engages with this comparison as part of reading Neal's piece, encountering De Quincey through Neal's invocation rather than direct reading.

1845—

Thomas Hood.

“Thomas Hood.”

mentioned

“the waning influence of that potent Drug whose stupendous pleasures and enormous pains have been so eloquently described by the English Opium Eater.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 August 1845. · 9 August 1845