5/24/2023 0 Comments Amy belding brown books![]() ![]() While there is no documentation of Lidian’s feelings for Thoreau, we do know that she and her daughter burned many of her letters and papers before her death. ![]() Henry Seidel Canby, the author of a 1939 biography of Thoreau, devotes more than a chapter to his theory that Thoreau was in love with Emerson’s wife. In Concord she’s portrayed as meek and shy. Lidian was known in her home-town, Plymouth, as a brilliant woman who loved a good rousing debate. Why was the 47-year-long marriage of Ralph Waldo Emerson to Lidian Jackson treated so sparingly in biographies of Emerson, while his 18-month marriage to his first wife had entire chapters and even 2 books devoted to it. The many questions that spurred my research engaged me in a sort of literary and historical mystery. Emerson’s Wife, I became particularly intrigued by the dynamics of Lidian’s relationship with both Emerson and Thoreau. ![]() Over the course of eight years, as I researched and wrote Mr. ![]()
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