Lidian Jackson Emerson
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Lidian Jackson Emerson was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children. A
Lidian Emerson with Edward Waldo Emerson
Mayflower House Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts: the girlhood home of Lidian Emerson
Emerson Family Home in Concord
Lidian Jackson Emerson in old age
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Lidian Jackson Emerson
…20, 1802 – November 13, 1892) was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children. An intellectual, she was involved in many social issues of her day, advocating for the abolition of slavery, the…
Emerson c. 1857
Engraved drawing, 1878
Emerson in 1859