Description |
1 online resource (401 pages) |
Contents |
Emerson Genealogies; Introduction; THE FAMILY; 1. Fathers and Sons of the Awakening; 2. Mothers and Daughters of the Awakening; 3. In Arms at the Concord Fight; A WOMAN'S LIFE; 4. Single Woman; 5. Constance; 6. Aunt Mary; THE MOVEMENT; 7. Secret Oracles; 8. God Within Us; 9. Heresy and Antislavery; LAST THINGS; 10. Vale; 11. Skeleton Mind; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Photo gallery |
Summary |
Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the ""eccentric Calvinist aunt"" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachuset |
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Print version record |
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Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Family
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Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863 -- Influence
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Emerson family.
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Emerson family fast |
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Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863 fast |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast |
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Intellectuals -- New England -- Biography
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Women intellectuals -- New England -- Biography
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Transcendentalism.
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transcendentalism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Families
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals
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Transcendentalism
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Women intellectuals
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SUBJECT |
New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365
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New England
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780195365023 |
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019536502X |
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