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 principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911 ... diverse threads into the philosophical tradition known as American Transcendentalism. Emerson's companions in the movement included Jones Very, the Peabody sisters ...

Today, many people do not know Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of those who do, consider him at best a 19th-century transcendentalist or, at worst, the Dale Carnegie of belles lettres. But Emerson ...