Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac D'Israeli is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1830–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1830–1846
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

“The wife of Rohault, when her husband gave lectures on the Philosophy of Descartes, used to seat herself, on those days, at the door, and refused admittance to every one shabbily dressed”
Curiosities of Literature · D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . . · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Isaac D'Israeli

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

D'Israeli in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1830—

Letter to Almira P. Barlow

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“as Leila said to Mignoun, in those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together in more studious hours. 'Let fate do her worst &c!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller explicitly names "Leila" and "Mignoun" as characters in "those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together," clearly referring to the Persian poetic tradition of Layla and Majnun—the famous love-story tradition exemplified by Nizami Ganjavi's verse romance (c. 1188 CE).

1846—

‘Darkness Visible.’

“‘Darkness Visible.’”
mentioned
“We know of no parallel yet to offer to the future D’Israeli of our literary history except the preface by another such self-elected guardian”

Fuller, Margaret. "‘Darkness Visible.’." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 March 1846. · 4 March 1846

1846—

D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . .

“D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . .”
analyzed · quoted · read3 selected passages
“The fact that this book has passed through seven editions, is sufficient evidence of its interest for the many”
“Camoens, when some hidalgo complained that he had not performed his promise in writing verses for him, replied, ‘When I wrote verses I was young, had sufficient food”
“The wife of Rohault, when her husband gave lectures on the Philosophy of Descartes, used to seat herself, on those days, at the door, and refused admittance to every one shabbily dressed”

Fuller, Margaret. "D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1846.