Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press.
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In the USA HM
became a good friend of Margaret Fuller
, although differences developed between them after Martineau published Society in America, which she saw as objecting to Fuller's gorgeous pedantry and disregard... |
Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | In addition to his intellectual heterodoxy, Charles Bray was a sexual nonconformist. He had several illegitimate children, of whom he and his wife adopted at least one. GE
may or may not have known about... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley
, a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Jex-Blake | When SJB
landed she was introduced to her host, Ralph Waldo Emerson
. She arrived only a couple months after the American Civil War had ended, and there was a climate of hostility towards Britain... |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | MF
's circle of friends and associates included many of the of the pre-eminent thinkers and writers of her day. She maintained a vision of friendship that demanded total loyalty and sought integrity, sensitivity, and... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Her relationship with Emerson
(recorded in their letters) was close and complicated, and was important in the intellectual development of each. |
Friends, Associates | Eudora Welty | Although she lived most of her life out of the social swing, EW
maintained a web of close friendships by letters and visits. With Diarmuid Russell
, who became her literary agent in 1940, she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Wright | According to scholar Kenneth Walter Cameron
, the influence of this work reached Lydia Maria Child
, and through her to Emerson
and perhaps Thoreau
. Cameron, Kenneth Walter, and Lydia Maria Child. “Genesis and Backgrounds of Mrs. Child’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Philothea</span>”;. Philothea, Trancendental Books, pp. 1-4. 2-3 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago. 117 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. S. Bevington | Bevington again prefaces her collection with an epigraph from Ralph Waldo Emerson
: this time from his essay Poetry and Imagination. She uses this quotation (When life is true to the poles of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)... |
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