Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Pierre Leroux(1797–1871)Inferred

Pierre Leroux is documented in Fuller’s letters (1843–1847). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1843–1847
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

“it is my present plan to return to Paris next winter and that then I shall probably be willing to engage for sketches of George Sand, La Mennais, and, if you wish, them Beranger and Le Roux. I have some ideas which please me in relation to all four.”
Letter to Mary Howitt · 1847

When Fuller engaged with Pierre Leroux

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Leroux in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p124
mentioned
“Can you send me the vol. on Philosophical Necessity giving an acct of the St Simonians &c.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller asks Emerson to send her a volume "on Philosophical Necessity giving an acct of the St Simonians." Hudspeth identified this as Pierre Leroux's De l'humanité, a two-volume philosophical treatise on humanity, religion, and social progress associated with the Saint-Simonian tradition.

1847—

Letter to Mary Howitt

analyzed · read
“it is my present plan to return to Paris next winter and that then I shall probably be willing to engage for sketches of George Sand, La Mennais, and, if you wish, them Beranger and Le Roux.”

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