WorkHonoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
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Documented 1845
Books
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.
“We have just been reading 'Le Pere Goriot,' Balzac's most celebrated work; a remarkable production”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · 'We have just been reading'
Explicit first-person statement 'We have just been reading Le Pere Goriot' places the book in her hands at a specific time.
“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