Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau, comte

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau, comte is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, most often in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
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1846

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

“The letters of this extraordinary man are all full of the highest flights of virtuous sentiment, amidst the grossest obscenities and the constant violation of the most sacred duties. Yet these declarations of sentiment were not insincere. They were only useless, and perhaps pernicious, as they concealed from him that depravity which he could scarcely otherwise have endured.”
The letters of this extraordinary man · The Life of Sir James Mackintosh · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau, comte

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Mirabeau in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

The Life of Sir James Mackintosh

“The Life of Sir James Mackintosh”
quoted · read
“The letters of this extraordinary man are all full of the highest flights of virtuous sentiment, amidst the grossest obscenities and the constant violation of the most sacred duties.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p63

Inferred Fuller’s words — “" The letters of this extraordinary man are all full of the highest flights of virtuous sentiment, amidst the grossest obscenities and the constant violation of the most…” — point to The letters of this extraordinary man, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p63; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Papers on Literature and Art

B-4-05, line 6035-6039
mentioned
“We cannot help wishing he had been provided, as Mirabeau always was, with a literary taster and crammer”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to de Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte — “We cannot help wishing he had been provided, as Mirabeau always was, with a literary taster and crammer” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Mem-2-07a, line 16161
mentioned
“of having played the Mirabeau after a talk with a circle of intelligent persons”

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

Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to de Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte — “of having played the Mirabeau after a talk with a circle of intelligent persons” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.