WorkThomas Carlyle

“Memoirs of Mirabeau," London and Westminster Review, vol. 26: 382–439”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · January 1837

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1837Memoirs of MirabeauAttested
“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.

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V. New York

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Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p266

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“for Mr Carlyle says 'it is wicked to be sick.' — When you write tell me how you like his Mirabeau.”

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

Fuller quotes Carlyle's remark "it is wicked to be sick" and asks Hedge's opinion of "his Mirabeau." Hudspeth identified the Mirabeau essay as "Memoirs of Mirabeau" from the London and Westminster Review (January 1837), and trace the sick quotation to Carlyle's letter to Emerson of 5 November 1836.

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p268

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“It is good—but not, to my mind, half as good as the Mirabeau.”

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