All posts tagged "Transcendentalism"
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5.5KMassachusettsCharles Stearns Wheeler, the Transcendentalist Pioneer Who Inspired Walden
Charles Stearns Wheeler built a shanty in 1836 near Flint’s Pond in Lincoln, Mass., and the next summer Henry David Thoreau spent...
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9.0K2Arts and LeisureClover Adams Takes Pictures of Grief (Her Own)
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
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16.6KArts and LeisureThe Two Loves of Louisa May Alcott
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
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21.3K27Religion and Social MovementsOne First Love – Ellen Louisa Tucker Marries Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Ralph Waldo Emerson who married Ellen Louisa Tucker on September 30, 1829 would hardly have recognized the man he became by...
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