Author

La Revue Indépendante

La Revue Indépendante is documented in Fuller’s letters (1846–1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Letter to George Palmer Putnam, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1846–1847
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

“My essay was translated for 'La Revue Independante' but without any of the quotations in verse, as the translators did not feel able to render them adequately.”
Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck · 1847

When Fuller engaged with La Revue Indépendante

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe3records
✦. 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.

1846—

Letter to George Palmer Putnam

p253
read
“Proposals have been made to me for translating some fragments of my writings into the French journals”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Fuller names La Revue Indépendante as the venue for her essay "De la littérature américaine," as Hudspeth identified, appearing on 10 December 1846.

1846—

Letter to Margarett C. Fuller

p253
read
“My Essay on American Literature has been translated into French, and published in 'La Revue Independante,' one of the leading journals of Paris”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

1847—

Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck

mentioned
“My essay was translated for 'La Revue Independante' but without any of the quotations in verse, as the translators did not feel able to render them adequately.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.