Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Standard Name: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Frances Wright
According to scholar Kenneth Walter Cameron , the influence of this work reached Lydia Maria Child , and through her to Emerson and perhaps Thoreau .
Cameron, Kenneth Walter, and Lydia Maria Child. “Genesis and Backgrounds of Mrs. Childs PhilotheaPhilothea, Trancendental Books, 1975, pp. 1-4.
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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, 1972.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy.
Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago, 1980.
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Davis's publisher...
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, 1993.
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Literary responses Harriet Martineau
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...
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, 1999.
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New York...
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., 1956.
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However, the patriotic feelings of Howe's countrymen and women of the North, who rallied in response to the devastating losses suffered by...
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
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Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
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), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...
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...
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...
Reception Margaret Fuller
The memoir of MF 's life which appeared (edited by Emerson and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot and Henry Crabb Robinson . Robinson observed that no...
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...
Reception Anna Leonowens
While initial reviews, particularly in the English Athenæum, of The English Governess and its successor, The Romance of Siamese Harem Life, were somewhat skeptical of the author's veracity, the books were very successful...
Textual Features Constance Lytton
Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith .
Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, 1925, p. v, xi - xv.
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Hating the round...

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