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Author Cole, Phyllis

Title Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism : a Family History
Published Cary : Oxford University Press, 1998

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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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Subject Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Family
Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863 -- Influence
Emerson family.
SUBJECT Emerson family fast
Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863 fast
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast
Subject Intellectuals -- New England -- Biography
Women intellectuals -- New England -- Biography
Transcendentalism.
transcendentalism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Families
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
Transcendentalism
Women intellectuals
SUBJECT New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365
Subject New England
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195365023
019536502X