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.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Fuller | The journal had been the idea of Frederick Henry Hedge
and Ralph Waldo Emerson
, neither of whom, however, had wanted to edit it. MF
accepted the position from Emerson in 1839, on the promise... |
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 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
and her husband were part of the huge audience crowded into the Manchester Athenæum to hear Ralph Waldo Emerson
speak. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 179-80 |
Literary responses | Julia Ward Howe | Many critics praised the poems' raw emotional power. Ednah Dow Cheney
, the only female reviewer, commented on their galvanic effect on the reader, and likened Howe to Robert Browning
. Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart. U Massachusetts Press. 172-3 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | |
Literary responses | Julia Ward Howe | Initially The Battle Hymn of the Republic was only somewhat praised. Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Little, Brown and Co. 245 |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson
's and Eve LaPlante
's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin
, 2009; a study... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble. 131 |
Occupation | Margaret Fuller | In the Conversations, Fuller covered topics including education, ethics, poetry, and the Classics, typically beginning with a lecture before a group discussion. Members paid for their attendance, and MF
was able to support herself and... |
Publishing | L. S. Bevington | Four of these poems were reprinted in Popular Science Monthly at the request of LSB
's friend Herbert Spencer
, a social scientist renowned for developing the concept of social Darwinism. The original publisher of... |
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... |
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 | A recent biographer, John Matteson
, laments the destruction and mutilation of her papers by her first memorialists, her friends Emerson
, William Henry Channing
and James Freeman Clarke
, as constituting vandalism that has... |
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... |
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