Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Standard Name: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She reviewed works by...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson
Textual Production Louisa May Alcott
She had written the stories to amuse the daughter of her friend Ralph Waldo Emerson . The collection earned her just over thirty dollars.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Alice Meynell
Its title is taken from Emerson and Zoroaster : a little wildly and with the flower of the mind.
Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation. Dutton.
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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.
Textual Production Jane Hume Clapperton
It was dedicated To My Friend, George Arthur Gaskell .
Clapperton, Jane Hume. A Vision of the Future. Swan Sonnenschein & Co Limited.
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In her prologue entitled: To the Reader,
Clapperton, Jane Hume. A Vision of the Future. Swan Sonnenschein & Co Limited.
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JHC adopts Emerson 's phrase Hitch Your Wagon to a Star as the motto of...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...
Textual Features L. S. Bevington
The poems in Key-Notes are philosophical in nature, extensively discussing the origins of the universe, and of the Earth in particular, and Darwinian evolution. Eijun Senaha argues that they also reflect Emerson 's transcendentalism.
Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol.
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, pp. 131-49.
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Textual Features Constance Lytton
Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith .
Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv.
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Hating the round...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
Anne, which has been read as personally revealing, depicts a successful middle-aged businesswoman and mother who is unable to persuade her children about the reality of her essential identity. Poignant in its sense of...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
The novel is set in an unnamed manufacturing city in Indiana,
Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers.
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but draws on RHD 's own upbringing in Wheeling, West Virginia. Pfaelzer suggests that its male protagonist is shaped by RHD
Reception Anna Leonowens
While initial reviews, particularly in the English Athenæum, of The English Governess and its successor, The Romance of Siamese Harem Life, were somewhat skeptical of the author's veracity, the books were very successful...
Reception Margaret Fuller
The memoir of MF 's life which appeared (edited by Emerson and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot and Henry Crabb Robinson . Robinson observed that no...

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By 23 October 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays appeared in...

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By 23 October 1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson 's Essays appeared in England.

1844: Ralph Waldo Emerson published his Essays:...

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1844

Ralph Waldo Emerson published his Essays: Second Series.

19 January 1850: A series of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson...

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19 January 1850

A series of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson was published under the title Representative Men.

1856: Ralph Waldo Emerson's travel book and social...

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1856

Ralph Waldo Emerson 's travel book and social studyEnglish Traits appeared.

1 April 1857: Herman Melville's last novel, The Confidence-Man:...

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1 April 1857

Herman Melville 's last novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, appeared.

2 December 1859: White American abolitionist John Brown was...

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2 December 1859

White American abolitionist John Brown was hanged in Charles Town by the state of Virginia, with the approval of the federal government .

16 April 1926: The Book-of-the-Month Club, newly founded...

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16 April 1926

The Book-of-the-Month Club , newly founded in the USA, mailed out its first monthly choice: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner .

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