Author

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)(1783–1842)Inferred

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and reading notebooks (1825–1846). 6 distinct works are named, most often in Lives of the Great Composers, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “translated”.

Engagement: TranslatedExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Books · Notebooks
Documented: 1825–1846

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

“As Bombet's lives of Haydn and Mozart are accessible here through an American edition, I shall not speak of these masters with as much particularity as of the three other artists. Bombet's book, though superficial, and in its attempts at criticism totally wanting in that precision which can only be given by a philosophical view of the subject, is lively, informed by a true love for beauty, and free from exaggeration as to the traits of life which we most care for.”

The Lives of Haydn and Mozart · Papers on Literature and Art · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist3records

V. New York

VI. Europe4records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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

(Beyle in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 44, 68–71, 82, 139–141

excerpted · analyzed · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

p.44

“Paganini, the first violin player of Italy, and perhaps of the world, is still a young man … Memoirs of Rossini.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed to 'Memoirs of Rossini' repeatedly in the text.

1838—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p323

read

“get from J. Dwight Tennyson's 2d vol and the Lives of Hayden and Mozart for me.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller explicitly requests "the Lives of Hayden and Mozart," identified by Hudspeth as Alexandre César Bombet's (Stendhal's) Vies de Haydn, de Mozart, et de Métastase, translated as The Lives of Haydn and Mozart.

1838—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838

letter_0170.txt (letter 171 to Caroline Sturgis), l.12454-56

read

“also, if possible, get from J. Dwight Tennyson's 2d vol and the Lives of Hayden and Mozart for me.”

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

Inferred Footnote identifies the book as Bombet's (Stendhal's) Vies de Hayden, de Mozart, et de Metastase, English trans. The Lives of Hayden and Mozart.

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p44

analyzed · read

“Little Mozart would say almost every moment- Do you love me and if any one said No the tears would roll down his cheeks.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller quotes Stendhal's anecdote about the young Mozart's need for affection, which Hudspeth identified as drawn from The Lives of Haydn and Mozart (p. 338); Fuller later republished this same anecdote in her October 1841 Dial review of the work.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p54

excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read

“As Bombet's lives of Haydn and Mozart are accessible here through an American edition, I shall not speak of these masters with as much particularity as of the three other artists.”

The same sentence also names Life of Haydn and Mozart. Counted as one engagement.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

1846—

Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”

translated · analyzed · read3 selected passages

“An interesting account of one of these is given in Bombct's life of Haydn, p. 75.”

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p227; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

“Bombet compares him in his works to Ariosto, and the whole structure of his character reminds us of the " Ariosto of the North," Walter Scott.”

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p230; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

“In this life (Schlichtegroll's, translated by Bombet) it is mentioned, " He would say ten times a day to those about him, ' Do you love me well V and whenever in jest they said ' No,' the tears would roll down his cheeks.”

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p245; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Undated

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

n.d.—

Papers on Literature and Art

B-4-12, line 23778

quoted · read

“An interesting account of one of these is given in Bombet's life of Haydn, p. 75.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.