WorkRobert Southey
The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820), Inferred
Robert Southey (1774–1843) · London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820
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Documented 1836–1846
Books • Notebooks
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
“From Southey's life of Wesley. The Creek Indians being exhorted [...] Whitefield.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
“The world at large takes its impression of the Wesleys from Southey. A humbler historian has scarce a chance to be heard beside one so rich in learning and talent.”
Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Fuller names only 'Southey' without a specific title, but there is only one major Southey work on the Wesleys: The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism (1820), his most famous and influential work on the subject. Fuller has read it and comments on it analytically — she knows it well enough to say it 'fails to convey the true spiritual sense' though 'fair in the intention.'