Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...