Author

Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Correspondence of the Schnellpost., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1845
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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

“Iffland, and Schiller also, in his “Cabal and Love,” on the stage, Lafontaine and innumerable others in romances, depicted the common citizens’ life”
Correspondence of the Schnellpost. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Jean de La Fontaine

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Correspondence of the Schnellpost.

“Correspondence of the Schnellpost.”
mentioned
“Iffland, and Schiller also, in his “Cabal and Love,” on the stage, Lafontaine and innumerable others in romances, depicted the common citizens’ life”

Fuller, Margaret. "Correspondence of the Schnellpost." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 January 1845. · 27 January 1845