Author

Jacques Pierre Brissot

Jacques Pierre Brissot is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1834–1835). One work is named, most often in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
Read
Present in
Letters · Manuscripts
Documented
1834–1835
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Jacques Pierre Brissot’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1834New Travels in the United States of AmericaAttested

    “I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county Three years after he was guillotined.”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 13th [March 1834]

    Explicit dated statement: 'I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county'.

  • 1835Work not namedAttested

    “Fuller responded to her reading of Jacques Pierre Brissot and Schiller by planning "two tragedies on the history of G[ustavus] A[dolphus]”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Reading Journal for 13 March 1835

    Editorially reported but explicitly sourced to her dated Reading Journal (13 March 1835) describing her reading of Brissot.

When Fuller engaged with Jacques Pierre Brissot

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed2records
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.

Brissot in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

M-012.txt, Page 2
“I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county Three years after he was guillotined.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Explicit dated statement: 'I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county'.

1835—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838

letter_0108.txt, line 8858-8860
read
“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. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Inferred Editorially reported but explicitly sourced to her dated Reading Journal (13 March 1835) describing her reading of Brissot.