Henry David Thoreau

In opposition to the Calvinist teaching about predestination which she had grown up with, WM came to believe in what she called True Love. For Calvinist Scots, she writes, Jesus died to save onlythe...

The trip, undertaken for financial reasons in addition to the political difficulty of two well-known Republicans remaining in Italy, was ill-starred from the beginning. It was initially delayed for weeks, the captain died soon after...

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...

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...

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...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

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

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...

She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life. It was the last volume that she published containing all new material. It was listed by the National Book League

This holiday was perfect, she wrote, from the first moment (though if the money would have stretched she would have liked to get to New England instead, because of her feeling for Thoreau ).

SM espouses an anti-materialism influenced by Thoreau . She has a washing machine and a car, but no television, radio, newspaper subscription, microwave, or central heating. She spent five pouds on clothes during 2003, and...