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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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. S. Bevington | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | 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)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mona Caird | 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... |
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... |
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