“many, even of devoutest Christians would not refuse the book which contains Queen Mab as a Christmas gift.”
WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
TranslatedMentioned
Documented 1845
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 →
Confirmed reading
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.
- undatedQueen Mab; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Julian and Maddalo; Alastor; Prometheus UnboundAttested
“When still in childish years, the 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' fell in our way... The poems we read then are what every one still reads, the 'Julian and Maddalo'...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · 'When still in childish years'; later 'Two or three years passed... Christmas season'
First-person account 'When still in childish years... fell in our way... The poems we read then' is an explicit dated reading statement.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1845—
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . .
“The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . .”mentioned2 selected passages
“and some of the minor poems, “Queen Mab,” the “Prometheus” and other more formal works we have not been able to read much.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 December 1845.