“These latter works are the "Mysteries of Paris," "Matilda," and the "Wandering Jew," which is now in course of publication.”
WorkEugène Sue
Les Mystères de Paris [The Mysteries of Paris]
Les Mystères de Paris [The Mysteries of Paris] (1842-43; English translation: The Mysteries of Paris, 1844)
Eugène Sue (1804–1857) · serialized 1842-43; published as book 1843
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New-York Daily Tribune
“French Novelists of the Day” · January?February 1845analyzed · read2 selected passages
“Have you entertained your leisure hours with the Mysteries of Paris, or the pathetic story of Violet Woodville?”
Inferred Fuller also references the character of “La Louve” from the same work. The “Violet Woodville” reference likely alludes to a different, now-obscure, sentimental novel of the same era.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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“In this connection I must mention Eugene Sue, the French novelist, several of whose works have been lately transplanted among us...”
The same sentence also names Mathilde: Mémoires d'une jeune femme [Mathilde: Memoirs of a Young Woman]. Counted as one engagement.
“Eugene Sue's description of a wicked, but able woman of the practical sort [...] "Mother Saint Perpetua, the superior of the convent, was a tall woman, of about forty years...”
Inferred The character 'Mother Saint Perpetua' is from Eugene Sue's Les Mystères de Paris.
Appendix D: Description of 'Mother Saint Perpetua' explicitly attributed to Eugene Sue; likely from Les Mystères de Paris.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.