WorkJohn Sterling
"The Onyx Ring," in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vols. 44–45 (1838–1839) Inferred
John Sterling (1806–1844) · 1838–1839
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Documented 1839
Letters
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 →
“I hope you will have the next Archaeus when I am within your gates. I am very much interested in this gallery. What a good attempt at a Goethe! Stirling's is just such a mind as I like.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“All the reading I did was occasionally when lying down in day time Mr Very's sonnets and pieces, Jane's letters, the Stirlings in two Blackwoods and little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller names "the Stirlings in two Blackwoods"—John Sterling's pieces appearing in consecutive issues of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volumes 44–45, 1838–1839), Fuller's casual mention of reading these works while resting suggests selective rather than sustained engagement with Sterling's contributions.