WorkGermaine de Staël

De l'Allemagne [On Germany]

InferredFuller writes of reading "De Stael on Locke's system"; Hudspeth identified this specifically as the section "De la philosophie angloise" in book 2, part 3, chapter 2 of *De l'Allemagne*, which discusses Locke's empiricism. Fuller writes "I read a quantity of Allemagne in town"; Hudspeth identified this as Madame de Staël's *De l'Allemagne*, her influential survey of German culture, literature, and philosophy, and note she was looking for material on Werner within it. De l'Allemagne (1813) is unambiguously identified by context: it is the work in which Mme de Staël surveys German Romantic philosophy including Jacobi at length (Part II, Ch.

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Documented 1827–1836

Letters • Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Confirmed reading

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.

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1826Corinne / Delphine / De l'AllemagneAttested
“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re41 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-01 l.2186-2188, letter dated May 14 1826; tier A; same passage); re39 (Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney, p.199; tier C; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement 'I am studying Madame de Stael...with great delight'.
1831De l'AllemagneAttested
“I read a quantity of Allemagne in town but could not find Werner.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
"I read a quantity of Allemagne in town" is an explicit reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence2records

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1827—

Letter to Susan Prescott

p154

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“Miss Francis and I think of reading Locke, as introductory to a course of English metaphysics, and then De Stael on Locke's system.”

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

Inferred Fuller writes of reading "De Stael on Locke's system"; Hudspeth identified this specifically as the section "De la philosophie angloise" in book 2, part 3, chapter 2 of De l'Allemagne, which discusses Locke's empiricism.

1831—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p182

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“I read a quantity of Allemagne in town but could not find Werner.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Fuller writes "I read a quantity of Allemagne in town"; Hudspeth identified this as Madame de Staël's De l'Allemagne, her influential survey of German culture, literature, and philosophy, and note she was looking for material on Werner within it.

1836—

Journal December 1836

p7–8

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“Seemed to know little of Jacobi except from Me de Stael.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

Inferred De l'Allemagne (1813) is unambiguously identified by context: it is the work in which Mme de Staël surveys German Romantic philosophy including Jacobi at length (Part II, Ch.