Author

Carl August von Eschenmayer(1768–1852)

Carl August von Eschenmayer is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
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1843
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 Carl August von Eschenmayer’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • undatedMysteries (Mysterien)Demonstrated

    “Eschenmayer writes thus of her in his "Mysteries." "Her natural state was a mild, friendly earnestness...”

    Summer on the Lakes

    Substantial quoted passage from Eschenmayer with continuation ellipsis, part of a heavily documented Seeress dossier.

In Fuller’s words

“Eschenmayer writes thus of her in his "Mysteries." "Her natural state was a mild, friendly earnestness, always disposed to prayer and devotion; her eye had a highly spiritual expression...”
Mysterien des innern Lebens [Mysteries of the Inner Life] · Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Carl August von Eschenmayer

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.

Eschenmayer in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

excerpted · quoted · read
“Eschenmayer writes thus of her in his "Mysteries." "Her natural state was a mild, friendly earnestness, always disposed to prayer and devotion; her eye had a highly spiritual expression...”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.