WorkJohn Murray

Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy

Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (1843) Inferred

John Murray (1778–1843) · 1843

InferredFuller refers to 'the Murray guide book mob' — tourists who follow John Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (1843) or Northern Italy (1842). Fuller's phrase implies both familiarity with the guidebook (she knows the type it attracts) and self-positioning as a non-tourist insider.

Mentioned

Documented 1848

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1848—

Letter to Emelyn Story

mentioned

“the Murray guide book mob fight shy, which makes it quite delightful for me to be here now.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller refers to 'the Murray guide book mob' — tourists who follow John Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (1843) or Northern Italy (1842). Fuller's phrase implies both familiarity with the guidebook (she knows the type it attracts) and self-positioning as a non-tourist insider.