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.
WorkJustinus Kerner
Die Seherin von Prevorst [The Seeress of Prevorst]
Justinus Kerner (1786–1862) · Stuttgart and Tübingen: J. G. Cotta, 1829
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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.”
“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.