MF
's Unitarian
ism introduced her to a vibrant intellectual community in Cambridge, and at a fairly young age she became a central figure in a social circle that included George Ripley
, William Henry Channing
Friends, Associates
Julia Ward Howe
JWH
's membership of the Boston Radical Club
was an important source of literary contacts for her. Formed in the fall of 1867, the club met monthly in the home of the Reverend John T. Sargent
Literary responses
Anna Swanwick
Her work was greeted with a chorus of praise from reviewers: the only quibble, from some, referred to her metrical choices. P. H. Wicksteed
in the Saturday Review suggested that AS
would advance the cause...
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...
