Author

Caroline SturgisInferred

Caroline Sturgis is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Notebook 1842, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement: QuotedRead
Present in: Notebooks

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In Fuller’s words

“Cary / Bound in the prison of my own sad soul / I wander fearfully through dungeons drear, / No aim, no hope, no happiness, no goal, / Hating myself, holding no other dear, / A vast voice sounding evermore around me, / Bidding me live, while life is ever dreary. / Oh heart! Why in this darkness hast / thou bound me? / God take me to thee, - I am very weary- / But hark! a voice is calling from below- / I come, Mysterious One! with [illegible] / dragging slow.-”

Notebook 1842

When Fuller engaged with Caroline Sturgis

No datable encounters with Sturgis, Caroline have been catalogued yet.

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.

Undated

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

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Notebook 1842

p41

quoted · readManuscript page

“Cary / Bound in the prison of my own sad soul / I wander fearfully through dungeons drear, / No aim, no hope, no happiness, no goal, / Hating myself, holding no other dear, / A vast voice sounding evermore around me, / Bidding me live, while life is ever dreary.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook 1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (90); Box 6.

Inferred The poem 'Bound in the prison of my own sad soul' is labeled 'Cary', for Caroline Sturgi. Fuller copies an eleven-line poem and labels it 'Cary'. The poem is a first-person despairing meditation ending with a turn toward mystical consolation