WorkWilliam Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · 1819
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Documented 1846
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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 →
“Peter Bell has no sooner felt his first throb of penitence and piety, than he prepares to read the lives of the saints.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Fuller mentions 'Peter Bell' as a character who 'prepares to read the lives of the saints' — this is the eponymous protagonist of Wordsworth's Peter Bell (1819).
“The time has gone by when groundlings could laugh with impunity at " Peter Bell" and the " Idiot Mother.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p100
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p100; page given is to the 1869 reprint.