WorkThomas Noon Talfourd

Ion: A Tragedy

Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts (London: privately printed, 1835; published Moxon, 1836), Inferred

Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) · London: privately printed, 1835; published Moxon, 1836

InferredFuller heard the actress Ellen Tree read aloud "some of the last scenes in Ion," which Hudspeth identified as Thomas Noon Talfourd's *Ion* (London, 1835), distinguishing it from Euripides' *Ion*.

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Documented 1837–1846

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Letters • Books

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
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Letter to Margarett C. Fuller

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“she is very pleasing in her manners, talks very intelligently and read to us some of the last scenes in Ion.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller heard the actress Ellen Tree read aloud "some of the last scenes in Ion," which Hudspeth identified as Thomas Noon Talfourd's Ion (London, 1835), distinguishing it from Euripides' Ion.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p113
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“stand such as Maturin's Bertram, Talfourd's Ion, and (now before me) Longfellow's Spanish Student.”

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

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p247
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“Barry Cornwall's verses and Talfourd's Ion are to poetry”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.