Author
Jonathan Carver is documented in Fuller’s books and journals (1843). One work is named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Read for the 1843 western tour
Named among the books Fuller consulted for her western journey, and discussed in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.
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 →
“I have no less grieved to omit Carver's account of the devotion of a Winnebago prince at the Falls of St. Anthony, which he describes with a simplicity and intelligence, that are very pleasing. I take the more pleasure in both Carver and Henry's power of appreciating what is good in the Indian character, that both had run the greatest risk of losing their lives during their intercourse with the Indians, and had seen them in their utmost exasperation, with all its revolting circumstances.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Carver, in his travels among the Winnebagoes, describes two queens, one nominally so, like Queen Victoria; the other invested with a genuine royalty, springing from her own conduct.”
Inferred Fuller names Carver explicitly and provides a paraphrase plus direct quotation from his account of a Winnebago queen.
“Another book of interest, from its fidelity and candid spirit, though written without vivacity, and by a person neither of large mind nor prepared for various inquiry, is Carver's Travels, "for three years throughout the interior parts of America, for more than five thousand miles.”
“I have no less grieved to omit Carver's account of the devotion of a Winnebago prince at the Falls of St.”
Inferred Jonathan Carver (1710–1780), American explorer, whose Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America (London: printed for the author, 1778) is the only work by Carver containing an account of a Winnebago prince at the Falls of St. Fuller names the author and work context explicitly. She praises Carver's 'simplicity and intelligence' in describing the Winnebago and recommends the book alongside Henry's.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Carver good old fashioned / gentleman, dull & true / Date of his journey. / Grand town of the Sau and / Foxes.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.
Inferred Fuller reads Jonathan Carver's Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America (London: the Author, 1778) as preparation for Summer on the Lakes. She characterizes Carver as 'a good old fashioned gentleman, dull & true,' notes specific episodes (the piety of an Indian prince at the Falls of St.