WorkElizabeth Caroline Grey

De Lisle; or, The Distrustful Man

De Lisle; or, The Distrustful Man (London: Henry Colburn, 1828)

Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869) · London: Bull, 1828

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Documented 1829–1838

Letters

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. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1829—

Letter to George T. Davis

p155

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“that most exquisite copy from a too rare model, De Lisle's Rosamond, (which could not have been a creation; no mind can compound such an one from elements of knowledge or observation; 'tis too stilly unique.)”

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

Fuller names the character De Lisle's Rosamond, and Hudspeth identified she refers to Elizabeth Caroline Grey's De Lisle; or, The Distrustful Man.

1838—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p323

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“I do not remember what novels I mentioned, but will mention "De Lisle" and "Village Belles" as excellent in their different ways.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.