1822—
Letter to Timothy Fuller
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“I have read Bracebridge Hall lately.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkWashington Irving
Bracebridge Hall
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humourists
Washington Irving (1783–1859) · 1822
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Documented 1822–1830
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- 1822Bracebridge HallAttested
“I have read Bracebridge Hall lately. I was much disappointed in it, it seems to me to possess very little incident or originality of idea”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 22d Dec. 1822
Explicit first-person statement 'I have read Bracebridge Hall lately'.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1830—
Letter to James F. Clarke
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“Suppose you write an imaginary tour round your sick chamber in the Irving method full of sweet fancyings of its tenants, the reveries of the furniture”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller suggests Clarke write "an imaginary tour round your sick chamber in the Irving method," referring to Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall, likely the "Family Reliques" chapter, though Tales of a Traveller is also possible.