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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series, Vol. 8, 1892 - 1893
Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism
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 ministers who had earlier practiced spiritual awakening and political resistance against England. C...
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series, Vol. 1, 1880 - 1881
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson
Scholars have long recognized that Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1863) had a vital influence on the intellectual development of her nephew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during his most formative years. The extent of that influence--and the quality of Mary Emerson's own mind--are apparent, however, only through her extensive correspondence spanning seventy years. The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson makes available for the first time this important collection of letters within the Emerson family papers and firmly establishes Mary Emerson as a woman of strong and independent mind. Moreover, as Emerson himself realized, his aunt's letters reveal much about the political, social, and religious concerns...
