Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Charles Perrault(1628–1703)Inferred

Charles Perrault is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in A Drive Through the Country: A Dialogue on Love, Duty, and Taste, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
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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 →

When Fuller engaged with Charles Perrault

No datable encounters with Perrault, Charles have been catalogued yet.

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

Perrault in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

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

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A Drive Through the Country: A Dialogue on Love, Duty, and Taste

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“He thinks with little Riding-hood / "There is no colour like red.”

Fuller, Margaret. "A Drive Through the Country: A Dialogue on Love, Duty, and Taste." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller's character says 'he thinks with little Riding-hood / "There is no colour like red."' This is an allusion to the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge), first published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697). The fairy-tale character is unmistakably identified by name. Author inferred because Fuller names only the character 'little Riding-hood,' not the author.

The fairy-tale character is unmistakably identified by name. Laurie says that the Neapolitan's taste for vivid color makes him think like 'little Riding-hood': 'There is no colour like red.' The character of Little Red Riding Hood is unmistakably identified, and the remark is presented as a paraphrase or proverbial sentiment associated with the tale.