Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...

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...

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...

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 .New York...

Interestingly, Carlyle seems to place HM in the context of sage discourse in his characterisation of her to Emerson in 1837: A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas...

Initially The Battle Hymn of the Republic was only somewhat praised. However, the patriotic feelings of Howe's countrymen and women of the North, who rallied in response to the devastating losses suffered by...

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...

On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

EG and her husband were part of the huge audience crowded into the Manchester Athenæum to hear Ralph Waldo Emerson speak.

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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)...