Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...

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...

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...

Her relationship with Emerson (recorded in their letters) was close and complicated, and was important in the intellectual development of each.

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...

On their return from Edinburgh, Jane and Thomas Carlyle received an unexpected visit from Ralph Waldo Emerson , who was on a literary tour and had been sent to them by John Stuart Mill ...

In 1872 AL met John Paine , a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts...

He shared a wide and varied social circle with his wife , as well as forging his own connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson , John Ruskin , Charles Kingsley , and Alfred Tennyson .

She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude , writer; Jane, Lady Franklin (widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own...

CC had already become a friend of Sydney Smith and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol , chemist Samuel Brown , artist David Scott

When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy. Davis's publisher...

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...

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...

Here the sisters Hadria and Algitha Fullerton regard the marriage market with horror and other compliant women with contempt. Marriage is on the one hand primitive, a savage rite of sacrifice, and on the other...

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)...