Author
Józef Straszewicz is documented in Fuller’s letters and books (1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, 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 →
“This fluctuation was obvious in a narrative I have lately seen, the story of the life of Countess Emily Plater, the heroine of the last revolution in Poland. [...] "Her name," said her biographer, "is known throughout Europe. I paint her character that she may be as widely loved.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Memoir of Emily Plater is in Miss Peabody's library.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Hudspeth identified she had read either Jozef Straszewicz's French original (1835) or the English translation published under the pseudonym J.
“This fluctuation was obvious in a narrative I have lately seen, the story of the life of Countess Emily Plater, the heroine of the last revolution in Poland.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.