Author

Dr. Pagan

Dr. Pagan is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in The North American Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

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1845
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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

“Dr. Pagan observes, that a patient confessed to him, that he never goes near an open window in the upper part of his house, without being afraid, as he thought he should yield to the extraordinary impulse, which he invariably feels”
The North American Review. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Dr. Pagan

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

The North American Review.

“The North American Review.”
quoted · read2 selected passages
“Dr.”
“One of the unfortunate creatures, says Dr. Pagan, was a young girl; and the first symptom of a disordered mind which she manifested was that of excessive mirth.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845.