WorkSir Walter Scott
Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) · 1815
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Documented 1843
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“It was Guy Mannering, then lately published, and the first of Scott's novels I had ever seen.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · then lately published
Specific, dated autobiographical account: 'It was Guy Mannering...the first of Scott's novels I had ever seen.'
“Continually I wanted Sir. Walter Scott to have been there.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller names Scott explicitly and alludes to his romantic sketches of gipsy life.
“It was Guy Mannering, then lately published^ and the first of Scott's novels I had ever seen.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.