WorkFrederick Marryat

Peter Simple or Mr. Midshipman Easy

InferredFuller names "Maryatt's novels" (plural) as bedtime reading without specifying a particular title; Marryat was a prolific English naval novelist whose popular works from this period included Peter Simple (1834) and Mr.

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Documented 1839

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. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“After I went to bed I would read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels, and I read the debates in Congress.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller names "Maryatt's novels" (plural) as bedtime reading without specifying a particular title; Marryat was a prolific English naval novelist whose popular works from this period included Peter Simple (1834) and Mr.