Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohn Gibson Lockhart

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-1838), Inferred

John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) · 1837-1838

InferredMargaret Fuller engages with John Gibson Lockhart's *Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott* (1837-1838), observing how her companion" [made] much amusement in leading him to sketch the scenes and persons which Lockhart portrays in such glowing colours," though "how different!" Fuller explicitly names Lockhart, and while the Scott biography is the most probable text, an earlier work by Lockhart is also considered given the dated context of Fuller's reflection.

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I found much amusement in leading him to sketch the scenes and persons which Lockhart portrays in such glowing colours, and which he, too, has seen with the eye of taste, but how different!”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller engages with John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-1838), observing how her companion" [made] much amusement in leading him to sketch the scenes and persons which Lockhart portrays in such glowing colours," though "how different!" Fuller explicitly names Lockhart, and while the Scott biography is the most probable text, an earlier work by Lockhart is also considered given the dated context of Fuller's reflection.