Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Jean Astruc(1684–1766)

Jean Astruc is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1835). One work is named, all in Notebook January 1835, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1835
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Books mentioned by Eichhorn which I should / like to read. / Astruc. Conjectures sur les mémoires / originaux, dont il paroit que Moyse / s'est servi pour composer le livre. / de Genese.”
Conjectures sur les mémoires originaux [Conjectures on the Original Sources of Genesis] · Notebook January 1835 · 1835

When Fuller engaged with Jean Astruc

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Astruc in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1835—

Notebook January 1835

p. 67
mentionedManuscript page
“Books mentioned by Eichhorn which I should / like to read. / Astruc. Conjectures sur les mémoires / originaux, dont il paroit que Moyse / s'est servi pour composer le livre. / de Genese.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.