WorkJohn Westland Marston
The Patrician's Daughter: A Tragedy in Five Acts
John Westland Marston (1819–1890) · 1841
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Documented 1843–1847
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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“It was a good idea to send me the other plays. [Hudspeth fn. 1: Emerson had sent copies of William Henry Smith's Athelwold (London, 1842), J.W.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Hudspeth identified J.W.
“One of the plays at the head of this notice also comes in here, The Patrician's Daughter, which, though a failure as a tragedy, from an improbability in the plot, and a want of power to touch the secret springs of passion, yet has the merits of genteel comedy in the unstrained and flowing dialogue, and dignity in the conception of character.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
“The Patrician's Daughter, a tragedy, in five acts, by J. Westland Marstcn: London: C. Mitchel, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1841.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p109
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p109; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“I spoke of "The Patrician's Daughter" in the terms it merits, and a warm wish was expressed by those present to read it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
“At Sadler’s Wells I saw a play which I had much admired in reading it, but found still better in actual representation; indeed, it seems to me there can be no better acting play; this is ‘The Patrician’s Daughter’ by J.W.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . X." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 March 1847. · 3 March 1847
“Marston I saw several times, and found him full of talent. [...] I went to see his "Patrician's Daughter." It is an admirable play for the stage.”
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 chronicled her attendance at a performance of John Westland Marston's 1841 drama, The Patrician's Daughter, deeming it an "admirable play for the stage." Her direct observation, coupled with her critical assessment of its dramatic qualities, suggests engagement beyond mere viewership of the theatrical production.