WorkVictor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Documented 1834–1835
Letters • Manuscripts
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.
“Have you read Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame? I am much fascinated by it”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834
Explicit 'Have you read... I am much fascinated by it' confirms her own direct reading.
“Have you read Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame?”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame by V. Hugo. This brilliant work has impressed my imagination strongly. Hugo is only eight years older than I.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury." Houghton Library, Harvard University.