WorkJohn Sterling

Strafford: A Tragedy

John Sterling (1806–1844)

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Documented 1843–1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I will bring in Taylor's and Coleridge's too, and make an olla, where Stirling will figure to more advantage than he would alone. [...] I hope to write your piece about Strafford”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“We come now to the work which affords the most interesting theme for this notice [...] Its author, Mr.”
“Strafford never alters, never is kindled by or kindles the life of any other being, never breathes the breath of the moment.”
“This very difficult subject for tragedy engaged, at about the same time, the attention of Sterling.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.