Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkVoltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide, or Optimism]

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)

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Documented 1830

Letters

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. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1830—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“I am glad you did not Martinize last night”

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

Fuller uses the verb "Martinize" (indulging in Martin-style pessimism), derived from the character Martin in Voltaire's Candide, which Clarke had quoted in his letter.