Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the ... This meant that Emerson, who made very little money from his ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911 ... Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing the literary ...