Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkAlexandre Dumas

The Regent's Daughter

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)

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Documented 1845

Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1845—

The Regent’s Daughter . . .

“The Regent’s Daughter . . .”
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“This is sad trash. Dumas has ruined his talent by careless, hasty writing for mercenary ends. Once, however imperfect his books were, flashes of native fire animated them”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Regent’s Daughter . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1845. · 25 February 1845