WorkHonoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
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Documented 1840–1845
Letters • Books • Essays
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.
“I have been reading a fine romance of Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet" I wish I could send it you”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica plain. 12th July 1840.
Explicit 'I have been reading a fine romance of Balzac's Eugenie Grandet'.
“I have been reading a fine romance of Balzac's 'Eugenie Grandet' I wish I could send it you, but it belongs to Mr Mottely.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“we know no modern tragedies more powerful than Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet," "Sweet Pea," "Search after the Absolute," "Father Goriot.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p163
“we know no modern tragedies more powerful than Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet," "Sweet Pea," "Search after the Absolute," "Father Goriot.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems; Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems; Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 February 1845. · 1 February 1845