WorkCharles Lamb

The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of His Life

Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

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Documented 1838

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Confirmed reading

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.

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  • 1838The Letters of Charles Lamb (ed. Talfourd)Attested

    “Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838

    Part of the same enumerated reading list ("absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters") in the same sentence.

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
1838—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Lamb's letters.”

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