Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to scholar Kenneth Walter Cameron , the influence of this work reached Lydia Maria Child , and through her to Emerson and perhaps Thoreau .

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...

LMA was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau , who taught science to her and her...

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...

They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley , a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included...

While in ParisGJ was once again introduced to Ralph Waldo Emerson , whom she had previously met after attending his November 1847 lecture in Manchester. GJ grew to like the man she had...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...