Selected texts and links about the lives, writings, and time of the Transcendentalists, including works by and about Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott and their contemporaries.
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About the Transcendentalists
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Ackerman, Joy Whiteley — Walden: A Sacred Geography
ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON (1799-1888)
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)
Angelo, Ray
- Biographical Sketch of Minot Pratt
- Botanical Index to the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
- Calendar of Flowering Times for Wildflowers and Woody Plants of Concord, Massachusetts
- Place Names of Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (and in Lincoln, Massachusetts) & Other Botanical Sites in Concord
- Thoreau’s Climbing Fern Rediscovered
- Animal Index to the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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- Gibbons, Prescott (1960- ) — Walden Pond Series
- Watson, Amelia Montague (1856-1934)
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Blake, Harrison Gray Otis (1816-1898)
Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813-1883)
Brown, John (1800-1859)
Brown, Theophilus (1811-1879)
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Cabot, James Elliot (1821-1903)
Channing, Edward Tyrrel (1790-1856)
Channing, William Ellery (1817-1901) — Walks with Ellery Channing (The Atlantic Monthly, July 1902)
Childs, Christopher — Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
Cholmondeley, Thomas (1823-1864)
Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880)
Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)
Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
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Ells, Stephen F. (1935-2008) — A Bibliography of Biodiversity and Natural History in the Sudbury and Concord River Valley
Emerson, Edward Bliss (1805-1834)
Emerson, Edward Waldo (1844-1930)
Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker (1811-1831)
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)
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Freeman, Brister (1744-1822)
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks (1822-1895) — Transcendentalism in New England (from Transcendentalism in New England: A History)
FULLER, MARGARET (1810-1850)
Fuller, Richard Frederick (1824-1869)
- Recollections of Richard F. Fuller (excerpts)
- The Younger Generation in 1840 (The Atlantic Monthly, August 1923)
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Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)
Gohdes, Clarence L.F. (1901-1997) — Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers (from The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism)
Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)
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Harding, Walter (1917-1996)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia (Peabody) (1809–1871)
Hecker, Isaac Thomas (1819-1888)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)
Hoar, Elizabeth (1814-1878)
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis (1812-1848)
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Ingraham, Cato (1751-1805)
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James, Henry (1843-1916) — The American Scene: Concord
Japp, Alexander Hay (1837-1905)
Journals and Periodicals
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Lane, Charles (1800-1870) — The Consociate Family Life
Langton, Jane (1922-2018) — Two Uncollected Talks: The Uses of New England Ecstasy • The War in Vietnam, the First Parish in Lincoln, Me, and Henry Thoreau
Lovejoy, Elijah Parish (1802-1837)
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
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Mac Donnell, Kevin — Collecting Henry David Thoreau by Kevin Mac Donnell
McCurdy, Michael (1942-2016) — Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
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Native Americans
- Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians by Richard F. Fleck (Archon Books, 1985; with errata and addendum, 2009)
- Selections from the “Indian Notebooks” (1847-1861) of Henry D. Thoreau, Transcribed, with an Introduction and additional material, by Richard F. Fleck
Newspapers
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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (1804-1894)
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Gleason, Herbert Wendell (1855-1937) — Hebert W. Gleason Photographs (The Writings of Henry David Thoreau 1906)
- Hosmer, Alfred Winslow (1851-1903) — Alfred W. Hosmer Photographs
- Portfolio of Cartes de Visite
Pratt, Minot (1805-1878) — A Biographical Sketch of Minot Pratt by Ray Angelo
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Salt, Henry S. (1851-1939)
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (1831-1917)
Sattelmeyer, Robert — Thoreau’s Reading: A Study in Intellectual History With Bibliographical Catalogue
Shanley, J. Lyndon (1910-1996) — Transcription of the First Version of Walden
Stearns, Frank Preston (1846-1917) — Sketches from Concord and Appledore: An Excerpt
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Thoreau, Helen (1812-1849)
Thoreau, Sophia (1819-1876)
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID (1817-1862)
The Transcendental Log: A Digital Documentary Life & Times of the Transcendentalists
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Very, Jones (1813-1880)
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Ward, Samuel Gray (1817–1907)
Watson, Amelia Montague (1856-1934)
Wheeler, Charles Stearns (1816-1843)
White, Zilpah (1738-1820)
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Wilson, William Dexter (1816-1900)
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