1846—
Browning’s Poems.
“Browning’s Poems.”mentioned
“Lay on the grass and forgot the oaf Over a jolly chapter of Rabelais.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846. · 1 April 1846
Author
François Rabelais(c. 1494–1553)
François Rabelais is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Browning’s Poems., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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- 1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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When Fuller engaged with François Rabelais
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.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“These witty Frenchmen, Rabelais, Montaigne, Molière, are great as were their marshals and preux chevaliers”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller identifies François Rabelais as one of the "witty Frenchmen" whose works she has read and admired, grouping him alongside Montaigne and Molière.