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Louis Blanc is documented in Fuller’s letters (1850). One work is named, most often in Letter to Unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Louis Blanc’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1? February 1850] (letter dateline); 'this last two months...I have been more occupied by reading'
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re473 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-10.txt line 27626-27629; tier A; same passage); re476 (Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe, p.257; tier C; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement: 'I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's Ten Years'.
“have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class, where were some facts I wanted.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline)
Same letter's explicit 'have read...Louis Blanc's Ten Years' statement.
“I have felt like reading more than for some years past, have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class, where were some facts I wanted.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“I have felt like reading more than for some years past, have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class, where were some facts I wanted.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I have been occupied somewhat in reading Louis Blanc's Ten Years, Lamartine's Girondists, and other books of that class, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.