Author
Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1834–1835). One work is named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“13th I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county… But to return to Brissot _ He saw things here very partially and all couleur de rose - But he seized Washington "Chastellux has mingled too much of the brilliant in his portrait of Gen Washington. His eye bespeaks great goodness of heart; manly sense marks all his answers…”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“13th I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county… But to return to Brissot _ He saw things here very partially and all couleur de rose - But he seized Washington "Chastellux has mingled too much of the brilliant in his portrait of Gen Washington.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“[From Hudspeth footnote 1: 'In her "Reading Journal" for 13 March 1835 (MH), Fuller responded to her reading of Jacques Pierre Brissot and Schiller by planning "two tragedies on the history of G[ustavus] A[dolphus]"']”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Hudspeth identified that Fuller's Reading Journal for 13 March 1835 records her reading Jacques-Pierre Brissot as research for planned tragedies about Gustavus Adolphus, though the specific Brissot work remains unidentified—it may have been a history rather than one of his better-known political writings.