Author
St. Teresa of Ávila is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1843–1845). One work is named, most often in Clairvoyance., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“No one thinks of Michael Angelo’s Persiean Sibyl, or St. Theresa, or Tasso’s Leonora, or the Greek Electra as an old maid, though all had reached the period in life’s course appointed to take that degree.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“She was a St. Theresa in her way.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller compares the Seherin to St. Teresa of ?vila (1515–1582), the Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer, well known for her trances, visions, and autobiographical Libro de la Vida (1565).
“According to the testimony of St. Theresa, Peter of Alcantara, for fourteen years allowed himself but half an hour’s sleep, and that he took sitting with his head leaning on a post;”
“St. Theresa, also, felt her soul, and then her head, and, finally, her whole body, lifted from the earth; and, in the sight of all the sisterhood, she floated over the grate of the door.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Clairvoyance." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 July 1845.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“No one thinks of Michael Angelo’s Persiean Sibyl, or St.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Woman-Her Sphere and Education." New-York Daily Tribune, .