Title The American renaissance in New England / edited by Joel Myerson

Published Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1978

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Description 224 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 1 Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 1 Contents Jacob Abbott -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz -- Amos Bronson Alcott -- Louisa May Alcott -- William Andrus Alcott -- Washington Allston -- Delia Bacon -- George Bancroft -- John Bartlett -- Cyrus Augustus Bartol -- Catherine Esther Beecher -- Francis Bowen -- Charles Timothy Brooks -- Orestes Augustus Brownson -- George Henry Calvert -- Edward Tyrrell Channing -- William Ellery Channing -- William Ellery Channing II -- William Henry Channing -- Ednah Dow (Littlehale) Cheney -- Francis James Child -- Lydia Maria Child -- James Freeman Clarke -- Moncure Daniel Conway -- Christopher Pearse Cranch -- George William Curtis -- Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall -- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- Emily Dickinson -- Dorothy Lynde Dix -- Frederick Douglass -- John Sullivan Dwight -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Edward Everett -- Cornelius Conway Felton -- James Thomas Fields -- Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen -- Convers Francis -- Octavius Brooks Frothingham -- Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa D'Ossoli -- William Henry Furness -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich -- Asa Gray -- Horatio Greenough -- Edward Everett Hale -- Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Isaac Thomas Hecker -- Frederic Henry Hedge -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Richard Hildreth -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Julia Ward Howe -- Samuel Johnson -- Sylvester Judd -- Charles Lane -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Samuel Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Horace Mann -- George Perkins Marsh -- James Marsh -- Donald Grant Mitchell -- John Lothrop Motley -- John Neal -- Charles King Newcomb -- Mary Sargeant (Neal) Gove Nichols -- Andrews Norton -- Charles Eliot Norton -- John Gorham Palfrey -- Theodore Parker -- Francis Parkman, Jr. -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody -- William Hickling Prescott -- George Ripley -- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn -- Catherine Maria Sedgwick -- Benjamin Penhallow Shilaber -- Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney -- Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith -- Seba Smith -- Jared Sparks -- William Wetmore Story -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Henry David Thoreau -- George Ticknor -- Jones Very -- William Ware -- David Atwood Wasson -- Noah Webster -- John Weiss -- Charles Stearns Wheeler -- Edwin Percy Whipple -- Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Joseph Emerson Worcester Summary Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began publishing their major works during the American Renaissance in New England (between 1830 and 1860). Wide scope of authors includes: novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, abolitionists, scientists, lexicographers; special attention is given to the Transcendental authors - headed by Emerson and Thoreau Notes "A Bruccoli Clark book." Bibliography Bibliography: pages [217]-224 Notes Print version record Dictionary of literary biography no:1 1096-8547 Subject American literature -- 19th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries. American literature -- 19th century -- Bio-bibliography. American literature -- New England -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries. American literature -- 19th century -- Dictionaries. American literature -- New England -- Bio-bibliography. American literature -- New England -- Dictionaries. Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New England -- Dictionaries. Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries. Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography. Authors, American -- New England -- Biography -- Dictionaries. Authors, American -- New England -- 19th century. SUBJECT New England -- Biography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116292 -- Dictionaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001671 New England -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116292 United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365 -- Dictionaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001671 Genre/Form Dictionaries. Author Myerson, Joel. LC no. 77082803 ISBN 0810309130

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