1840—
Journal 1840
p23mentionedManuscript page
“De Tocqueville's democracy / What is democracy.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).
Author
Alexis de Tocqueville(1805–1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville is documented in Fuller’s published essays and journals (1840–1850). One work is named, most often in Journal 1840, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
- Engagement
- Mentioned
- Present in
- Essays · Journals
- Documented
- 1840–1850
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
“Alas! how those purple men of sin must sneer as they see such men as De Tocqueville and Odilon Barrot cast down from the place where they have sacrificed the fair fame they had acquired”
When Fuller engaged with Alexis de Tocqueville
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Tocqueville in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1850—
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXXV.
“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXXV.”mentioned
“Alas! how those purple men of sin must sneer as they see such men as De Tocqueville and Odilon Barrot cast down from the place where they have sacrificed the fair fame they had acquired”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXXV." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 January 1850. · 9 January 1850