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Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel

Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel (1760) Inferred

InferredFuller refers multiple times to 'the Life of Handel' and states she 'has seen only the London' edition — most likely John Mainwaring's Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel (1760), the standard 18th/19th-century Handel biography. Fuller says she has seen 'the Life of Handel' only in a London edition.

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“Let us pass to the life of Handel. ... Both this and the Life of Handel I have seen only in the London”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Fuller refers multiple times to 'the Life of Handel' and states she 'has seen only the London' edition — most likely John Mainwaring's Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel (1760), the standard 18th/19th-century Handel biography. Fuller says she has seen 'the Life of Handel' only in a London edition.

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Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”

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“When they came to the organ, not a doubt remained as to which the preference belonged.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p235

Inferred Fuller relates the Handel–Scarlatti trial at the organ (“Scarlatti himself declared…”) without naming her source; the anecdote is identified with Mainwaring’s Memoirs of the Life of Handel (1760), where it is first printed.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p235; page given is to the 1869 reprint.