Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne(1735–1814)

Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne is documented in Fuller’s letters (1828). One work is named, all in Letter to Susan Prescott, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1828

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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

“Did you ever read the letters and reflections of Prince de Ligne, the most agreeable man of his day? I have just had it, and if it is new to you, I recommend it as an agreeable book to read at night just before you go to bed.”
Mélanges militaires, littéraires, sentimentaires [Military, Literary, and Sentimental Miscellanies] · Letter to Susan Prescott · 1828

When Fuller engaged with Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)2records
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Ligne in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1828—

Letter to Susan Prescott

p155
analyzed · read
“Did you ever read the letters and reflections of Prince de Ligne, the most agreeable man of his day?”

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

Inferred Fuller has just acquired "the letters and reflections of Prince de Ligne," identified by Hudspeth as Mélanges militaires, littéraires, sentimentaires, and comments on its curious matter concerning Catherine II's expedition, information about Joseph II, and Turkish tactics.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1828—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Mem-2-01 l.2260-2264
read
“Did you ever read the letters and reflections of Prince de Ligne, the most agreeable man of his day?...I recommend it as an agreeable book”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Only asks 'Did you ever read...' and recommends the book, with no explicit statement that Fuller herself read it.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p69
analyzed · read
“Did you ever read the letters and reflections of Prince de Ligne, the most agreeable man of his day ?”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Fuller indicates recent, active reading of this compilation, identifying it as an "agreeable book" to be enjoyed before bedtime.