Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkSt. Teresa of Ávila

Libro de la Vida

Libro de la Vida, 1565, Inferred

St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)

InferredFuller compares the Seherin to St. Teresa of ?vila (1515–1582), the Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer, well known for her trances, visions, and autobiographical Libro de la Vida (1565).

ReadMentioned

Documented 1843

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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 work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“She was a St. Theresa in her way.”

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

Inferred Fuller compares the Seherin to St. Teresa of ?vila (1515–1582), the Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer, well known for her trances, visions, and autobiographical Libro de la Vida (1565).