WorkBenjamin Disraeli
Vivian Grey (1826), Inferred
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) · London, 1826
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Documented 1834–1845
Letters • Books • Essays • Journals • Manuscripts
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.
“read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
Explicit 'read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey.'
“In Vivian Grey our author illumined (his worst maligners will confess it) he illumined many abuses, many secret sufferings with rays more strong and steady than any one before had dared to cast upon them.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).
“never _ never shall we again see any like those of Vivian Grey”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Title is explicit through naming; author identified through title.
“Activity of mind, accuracy in processes, constant looking for principles, and search after the good and beautiful, "that's the ground I go upon" as Mr S says in Vivian Gray”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Fuller names Benjamin Disraeli's novel Vivian Grey explicitly and quotes a line from a character (identified in Hudspeth's notes) to illustrate her pedagogical philosophy.
“After I went to bed I would read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels, and I read the debates in Congress.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“I admire this story for the _savoir faire_, the nonchalance, the Vivian Greyism of Indian life.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller coins the term 'Vivian Greyism' to characterize the breezy social savoir faire and nonchalance of Muckwa's behavior ? by allusion to the protagonist of Disraeli's first novel, Vivian Grey, whose hero is known for his effortless social manipulation and cool self-possession.
“In 'Vivian Grey,' the young D'Israeli, an educated Englishman, but with the blood of sunnier climes glowing and careering in his veins, gave us the very flower and essence of factitious life.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Story Books for the Hot Weather." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 June 1845. · 20 June 1845