Author
Alphonse de Lamartine is documented in Fuller’s letters, published essays, and journals (1839–1850). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 Alphonse de Lamartine’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“reading Louis Blanc's Ten Years, Lamartine's Girondists, and other books of that class”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · none (context: Florence, winter 1849-50)
Same explicit reading sentence names Lamartine's Girondists alongside Louis Blanc.
“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1? February 1850] (letter dateline)
Same explicit reading statement covering LaMartine's history alongside Louis Blanc.
“Margaret read, this winter, Louis Blanc's Story of Ten Years, and Lamartine's Girondists”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter in Florence, 1849-50
Same dated (winter 1849-50) explicit statement naming Lamartine's Girondists.
“From La Martini's ode to Bonaparte. / On dit qu'aux derniers jours de sa longue agonie, / Devant l'éternité seul avec son génie, / Son regard vers le ciel parut se soulever; ... / Son cercueil est fermé, Dieu l'a jugé: -- silence! / Son crime et ses exploits pèsent dans la balance...”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“From La Martini's ode to Bonaparte. / On dit qu'aux derniers jours de sa longue agonie, / Devant l'éternité seul avec son génie, / Son regard vers le ciel parut se soulever; ...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
“Both speak with some feeling of the impressive utterance of La Martine in the late debates.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Courrier des Estats Unis." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 June 1845. · 7 June 1845
“M. de La Martine is at Saint Point seeking the fifth act of his black tragedy, Toussaint L’Ouverture”
Fuller, Margaret. "Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 September 1845. · 24 September 1845
“whether the impression of personality relates to the religious enthusiasms of Chateaubriand and La Martine or the lost pantaloons and cups of tea of our countryman, Stephens.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845
“So many years as we have been suffocated and poisoned by the atmosphere of falsehood in official papers, how refreshing is the tone of noble sentiment in Lamartine!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIV." New-York Daily Tribune, 15 June 1848. · 15 June 1848
“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller names Lamartine without providing a title, grouping him with Louis Blanc among "books which throw light on recent transactions." Hudspeth identified the work as Lamartine's Histoire de la révolution de 1848.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I have been occupied somewhat in reading Louis Blanc's Ten Years, Lamartine's Girondists, and other books of that class, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.