Author
Jules Michelet is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1839–1847). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Charles K. Newcomb, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Dr C. was reading Michelet's Life of Luther, and that naturally brought up the Reformation often. We were led to fear that Luther appreciated the right of the individual to judge for himself as little as his followers do”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Dr C. was reading Michelet's Life of Luther, and that naturally brought up the Reformation often.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Fuller engaged directly with the book's content, offering analysis of Luther's theological individualism and its implications, as as Hudspeth identified.
“This was that Professors Quinet and Michelet should be stopped in their course of lectures, by which, associated with the newest philosophy, they diffuse a spirit of practical freedom too”
Fuller, Margaret. "Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 8 August 1845. · 8 August 1845
“We have too long delayed to express our sense of the value of this work. One of the first points to be mentioned, in doing so, is its readableness.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845
“Generally the most celebrated lecturers are silent at this moment. Michelet is ill.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . X." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 March 1847. · 3 March 1847