Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...

She had written the stories to amuse the daughter of her friend Ralph Waldo Emerson . The collection earned her just over thirty dollars.

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...

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...

The poems in Key-Notes are philosophical in nature, extensively discussing the origins of the universe, and of the Earth in particular, and Darwinian evolution. Eijun Senaha argues that they also reflect Emerson 's transcendentalism.

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...

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...

One of the many novels which RNC chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)...

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 .

It was dedicated To My Friend, George Arthur Gaskell .In her prologue entitled: To the Reader,JHC adopts Emerson 's phrase Hitch Your Wagon to a Star as the motto of...

CC had already become a friend of Sydney Smith and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol , chemist Samuel Brown , artist David Scott

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...

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...

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...