WorkThomas Carlyle
"Memoirs of Mirabeau" (first pub. London and Westminster Review, January 1837; repr. in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
InferredFuller refers to "the Mirabeau" as a known stylistic comparator for *The French Revolution*,
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Documented 1837
Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“It is good—but not, to my mind, half as good as the Mirabeau.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston. 11th April 1837.
Comparative critical judgment implying she has read both this work and the Mirabeau, part of the same letter's explicit reading account.
“It is written in the same style as the Mirabeau; the same clear and wide view, the same pictorial power and sparkling wit, and is animated by the same energy of faith—”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller refers to "the Mirabeau" as a known stylistic comparator for The French Revolution,