William Fulford (1831-1882) intended this story to be “simple and ordinary, with
little incident, with no adventure, yet not devoid of thought and feeling,
as the life of no man, though it seemed the most monotonous and commonplace,
has ever been” (535). It is the most autobiographical of the stories
in
The Oxford and
Cambridge Magazine
The texts referred to in this story were nearly all
reviewed or analyzed in the Magazine: most chapters begin with quotations
from various poems by Tennyson (about whom Fulford wrote an important Memorials 122)).
The
This story, like Fulford’s
First printed in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
Memorials
Life of William Morris