WorkJohn Foxe

Acts and Monuments (Book of Martyrs)

Acts and Monuments (Book of Martyrs) (1563) Inferred

John Foxe (1516–1587) · 1563

InferredFoxe's work is named within a passage from Southey's Life of Wesley via its familiar title 'Foxe's Martyrdom' (i.e., Acts and Monuments / Book of Martyrs). Southey's Life of Wesley mentions 'Foxe's Martyrdom' as the inspirational reading for Whitefield, comparing it to the effect of chivalric romances on Don Quixote.

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Documented 1836

Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

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“Foxe's Martyrdom was to Whitefield what books of chivalry were to Don Quixote, or the lives of the Saints to Ignatius Loyola.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Inferred Foxe's work is named within a passage from Southey's Life of Wesley via its familiar title 'Foxe's Martyrdom' (i.e., Acts and Monuments / Book of Martyrs). Southey's Life of Wesley mentions 'Foxe's Martyrdom' as the inspirational reading for Whitefield, comparing it to the effect of chivalric romances on Don Quixote.