Author

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (Madame Guyon)(1648–1717)

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (Madame Guyon) is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, reading notebooks, and manuscripts (1836–1845). One work is named, most often in Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedReadMentioned
Present in: Books · Essays · Notebooks · Manuscripts
Documented: 1836–1845

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“I was frequently reduced to extremity [...] During my extraordinary illness, The Lord gradually taught me that there was another manner of conversing among souls [...] It was in this that I comprehended the ineffable commerce of the most holy Trinity [...] Madame Guyon.”

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon · Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (Madame Guyon)

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Guyon in Fuller’s reading world

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon1836

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p63–p66

excerpted · readManuscript page

“I was frequently reduced to extremity [...] During my extraordinary illness, The Lord gradually taught me that there was another manner of conversing among souls [...] It was in this that I comprehended the ineffable commerce of the most holy Trinity [...] Madame Guyon.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Attributed 'Madame Guyon.' at the end.

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p17

mentioned

“Philo-Judaeus, Swedenborg, Origen, Fenelon, Boethius, Madame Guyon, Mirandola, Dante, Petrarca, More, Cudworth, Norris.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p96

mentioned

“Fenelon learns from Guyon”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Woman-Her Sphere and Education.

“Woman-Her Sphere and Education.”

mentioned

“Fenelon learns Guyon, Kerner from his seress what we fain would know.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Woman-Her Sphere and Education." New-York Daily Tribune, .