LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Henry David Throeau
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Margaret Fuller
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Frederic Henry Hedge
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harvard’s Houghton Library has acquired Henry David Thoreau’s notes from the scene of the shipwreck that killed social reformer and writer Margaret Fuller.
Detailed explanation-2: -She became the editor of The Dial, the Transcendental journal, and advocated the philosophy of liberation and fulfillment of the highest potential of all human beings-including women.
Detailed explanation-3: -Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important American feminists of her day, was a philosopher, journalist, and literary critic. She belonged to the New England intellectual community called the transcendentalists, who also included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Detailed explanation-4: -She is particularly remembered for her landmark book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), which examined the place of women within society. Fuller was an extremely precocious child.