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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. |
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... |
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. Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press. |
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... |
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. 59 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne
through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from... |
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 |
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 |
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