WorkEugène Sue

Martin, l'enfant trouvé; ou, Les Mémoires d'un valet de chambre

Martin, l'enfant trouvé; ou, Les Mémoires d'un valet de chambre (Paris: Gosselin, 1846)

Eugène Sue (1804–1857) · Paris: Gosselin, 1846

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Documented 1849

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  • 1849Martin, l'enfant trouve (Martin the Valet de Chambre)Attested

    “Also an attempt to paint her in Eugene Sue's Martin the Valet de Chambre which would interest you to read I think. I read it, translated into Italian, when I was getting well.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome. 8 March. 1849

    'I read it, translated into Italian, when I was getting well' is an explicit first-person reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Caroline Sturgis Tappan

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“Also an attempt to paint her in Eugene Sue's Martin the Valet de Chambre which would interest you to read I think. I read it, translated into Italian, when I was getting well.”

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