| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford University Press on-line |
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Oxford University Press on-line
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| Contents |
Emerson Genealogies; Introduction; THE FAMILY; A WOMAN'S LIFE; THE MOVEMENT; LAST THINGS; Notes; Index |
| 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 Massachusetts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863 -- Influence
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Emerson family.
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| SUBJECT |
Emerson family fast |
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Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863 fast |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast |
| Subject |
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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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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| Subject |
New England
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
058532686X |
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9780585326863 |
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1601295960 |
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9781601295965 |
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9780195039498 |
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0195039491 |
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