WorkSir Walter Scott

The Abbot

The Abbot (1820) Inferred

InferredFuller names the character "Dryfesdale".Fuller uses Dryfesdale as the lowest extreme on a spectrum of human sympathy.

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Documented 1833

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1850

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“I know I can sympathize with all who feel and think, from a Dryfesdale up to a Max Piccolomini.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names the character "Dryfesdale".Fuller uses Dryfesdale as the lowest extreme on a spectrum of human sympathy.