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Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (various editions, including London, 1826) Inferred

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) · various editions, including London, 1826

InferredFuller alludes to a published anecdote, widely current in the nineteenth century, in which Richard Brinsley Sheridan caused dinner companions to "be set in a roar of laughter" by declaring "he liked currant jelly." This anecdote likely circulated through collections of literary gossip such as Sheridaniana (1826).

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Documented 1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Thomas Hood” · July 18, 1845 · p. 1

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“as when Sheridan, on such an occasion, opened his lips for the first time to say that "he liked currant jelly”

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 Fuller alludes to a published anecdote, widely current in the nineteenth century, in which Richard Brinsley Sheridan caused dinner companions to "be set in a roar of laughter" by declaring "he liked currant jelly." This anecdote likely circulated through collections of literary gossip such as Sheridaniana (1826).