Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...