WorkBenjamin Disraeli

The Young Duke

The Young Duke: A Moral Tale, Though Gay (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, 3 vols.)

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) · London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, 3 vols.

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Documented 1834–1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York3records
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Journal 1833–1834

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“In the young Duke we meet him again; his genius more controlled, but not crushed.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Story Books for the Hot Weather” · June 20, 1845 · p. 1
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“The 'Young Duke' was full of brilliant sketches, and showed a soul struggling, blinded by the gaudy mists of fashion, for realities.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“The English novelist, D'Israeli, has, in his novel of the "Young Duke," made a man of the most depraved stock be redeemed by a woman who despises him when he has only the brilliant mask of fortune and beauty”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

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Story Books for the Hot Weather.

“Story Books for the Hot Weather.”
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“Since then, D’Israeli has never written any thing to be compared with this first jet of the fountain of his mind in the sunlight of morning. ‘The Young Duke’ was full of brilliant sketches”

Fuller, Margaret. "Story Books for the Hot Weather." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 June 1845. · 20 June 1845