Transcendental Club

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Margaret Fuller
MF , as editor (first woman editor of an influential literary journal),
Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, No. 22, pp. 16 -18.
16
put out the first issue of the Transcendental ist journal The Dial.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
124
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Textual Production Margaret Fuller
MF ended her term as editor of The Dial. TranscendentalistRalph Waldo Emerson assumed the position, and the journal continued until April 1844.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Timeline

8 September 1836
The Transcendental Club (also known as the Hedge Club and the Symposium ) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.