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

I desire, even with profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints I ...

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 ...

Famed poet/philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” For James Everest and Rosetta Peters, the heart behind ...

He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...

Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aunt ... is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women who made an art of contrarian thinking. They had strong reasons to do so, as the most brilliant ...