WorkHonoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) · serialized 1834-35; published as book 1835
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Documented 1839–1845
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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.
“Margaret speaks at some length of Balzac's novel Le Pere Goriot, which she had just read”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · essay on French novelists, in Life Without and Life Within
Explicit statement that she 'had just read' Balzac's Le Pere Goriot, tied to a specific essay.
“I have just been reading "Le Père Goriot" his most celebrated work. A remarkable production to which Paris alone would at the present day have given birth.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“We have just been reading "Le Pere Goriot," Balzac's most celebrated work; a remarkable production, to which Paris alone, at the present day, could have given birth.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p159