Author
François-Jean de Chastellux is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1834). One work is named, all in Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
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 François-Jean de Chastellux’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Chastellux has mingled too much of the brilliant in his portrait of Gen Washington. His eye bespeaks great goodness of heart...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 13th [March 1834]
Substantial two-sentence verbatim quotation copied from Brissot's book into her notebook.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Chastellux has mingled too much of the brilliant in his portrait of Gen Washington. His eye bespeaks great goodness of heart...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Substantial two-sentence verbatim quotation copied from Brissot's book into her notebook.