WorkBenjamin Disraeli
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy; and the Rise of Iskander (London: Saunders and Otley, 1833, 3 vols.)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) · London: Saunders and Otley, 1833, 3 vols.
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Documented 1833–1845
Letters • Books • Essays • Journals
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“thinking through Alroy which I have been reading”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [30? June 1833]
Explicit 'Alroy which I have been reading.'
“I have been sitting in the piazza hearing it rustle the vines against the Moon's benignant face and thinking through Alroy which I have been reading— I lived it all through and set it to musick in my soul.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Alroy. An excellent poem. The plan is well conceived, the characters happily drawn parts most eloquent but the style is faulty”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).
“The 'Wondrous Tale of Alroy' showed great power of conception, though in execution it is a failure.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“The Wondrous Tale of Alroy’ showed great power in conception, though, in execution, it is a failure.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Story Books for the Hot Weather." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 June 1845. · 20 June 1845