Author

Frédéric Soulié

Frédéric Soulié is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1845
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

“Such nonsense from Souliè, the lowest works of Paul de Kock are selected, when there are books which would degrade the reader less, and entertain him more.”
The Regent’s Daughter . . . · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Frédéric Soulié

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York3records
VI. Europe
✦. 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.

1845—

Items of Foreign Gossip.

“Items of Foreign Gossip.”
mentioned
“to embrace Frederic Soulie, I have been obliged to go to his villa of Bièvres, where he divides his time between the pleasures of gardening”

Fuller, Margaret. "Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 September 1845. · 24 September 1845

1845—

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . .

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . .”
mentioned2 selected passages
“The cross of the Legion of Honor has just been conferred in France on Dumas and Soulie, both celebrated in the paths of light literature.”

Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.

“It is to be remarked in the writings both of Souliè and Dumas, full of faults but glowing with plastic life and fertile in invention.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 10 June 1845.

1845—

The Regent’s Daughter . . .

“The Regent’s Daughter . . .”
mentioned
“Such nonsense from Souliè, the lowest works of Paul de Kock are selected, when there are books which would degrade the reader less, and entertain him more.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Regent’s Daughter . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1845. · 25 February 1845