1843—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I have a really good book Die Seherin von Prevorst.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Author
Justinus Kerner(1786–1862)
Justinus Kerner is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1843–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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- 1843–1845
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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Justinus Kerner’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
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- 1829Die Scherin von Prevorst (The Seeress of Prevorst)Demonstrated
“This was the German book entitled: Die Scherin von Prevorst...Mitgetheilt von Justinus Kerner. The Seeress of Prevorst...communicated by Justinus Kerner.”
Summer on the Lakes · This book, published in Germany some twelve years since
Engagement type Translated automatically qualifies (Kerner's Seeress of Prevorst).
In Fuller’s words
“Die Scherin von Prevorst.--Eröffnungen über das innere Leben des Menschen und über das hereinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere. Mitgetheilt von Justinus Kerner. / The Seeress of Prevorst.--Revelations concerning the inward life of man, and the projection of a world of spirits into ours, communicated by Justinus Kerner.”
When Fuller engaged with Justinus Kerner
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Kerner in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1843—
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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“Die Scherin von Prevorst.--Eröffnungen über das innere Leben des Menschen und über das hereinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere. Mitgetheilt von Justinus Kerner.”
“He was known to me only through two or three little poems of his in Catholic legends, which I much admired for the fine sense they showed of the beauty of symbols.”
“A friend, who was often with her at this time, wrote to me (Kerner): When I, with my finger, touch her on the forehead between the eyebrows, she says each time something that bears upon the state of my soul.”
“The same, we may recall, was said of that of the Seeress of Prevorst, and the circumstance presents pleasing analogies.”
Fuller refers to 'the Seeress of Prevorst' as a known figure/text, drawing analogy between the 'oriental cast' of Sequoyah's face and that attributed to Friederike Hauffe.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
1845—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
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“Seeress of Prevorst Dr Francis has and I believe James Clarke, too.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Hudspeth identified she had discussed Justinus Kerner's original German work in Summer on the Lakes, and an English translation appeared in 1845.
1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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“The best topic for a chapter on this subject in the present day, would be the history of the Seeress of Prevorst, the best observed subject of magnetism in our present times...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Named explicitly as 'Kerner, from his Seeress'; the Seeress of Prevorst is the central subject of Kerner's book. Named explicitly as 'Kerner' and 'the Seeress of Prevorst' — Justinus Kerner's celebrated study Die Seherin von Prevorst (1829), about the clairvoyante Friederike Hauffe.
1845—
Clairvoyance.
“Clairvoyance.”quoted · read4 selected passages
“I apprehend that many of the extraordinary phenomena recorded by Kerner will not find very general credence with English readers;”
“Indeed, Kerner’s well-known character ought to exempt him from such an imputation from any quarter; and, for my own part, I reject with horror the idea, that in a suffering creature,”
“Of the Seeress Kerner mentions one fact of the same character with that now exhibited by the Ecstasies and Dominica of the Catholic church.”
“We shall often have occasion to advert farther to this book of Dr. Kerner’s.”
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.
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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, .