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The Child of the Islands

The Child of the Islands (1845) Inferred

Caroline Norton (1808–1877) · 1845

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Documented 1845–1846

Books • Essays

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. Transcendentalist
V. New York3records
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1845—

New-York Daily Tribune

“First of August” · August 1, 1845, August 1845 · p. 1
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“Mrs. Norton writes a poem on the sufferings of the poor, and in it she, as episode, tunefully laments the sufferings of the Emperor of all the Russias for the death of a beloved daughter.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

Inferred Margaret Fuller explicitly identifies Mrs. Norton (Caroline Norton, 1808–1877) as the author.

1845—

Prince’s Poems.

“Prince’s Poems.”
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“as we doubt Mrs. Norton’s Child of the Islands would not have vigor and purity of mental sense even to sympathize with”

Fuller, Margaret. "Prince’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1845. · 13 August 1845

1845—

The Child of the Islands . . .

“The Child of the Islands . . .”
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“The Hon. Mrs. Norton and Prince, “a reed-maker for weavers,” meet upon a common theme—the existing miseries and possible relief of that most wretched body, England’s Poor”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Child of the Islands . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 26 July 1845. · 26 July 1845

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“THE CHILD OF THE ISLANDS By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. London: Chapman and Hull.”

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