One First Love The Letters of Ellen Louisa Tucker to Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Editor:
| Gregg, Edith W. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-43410-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Letters, poems, and fragments of a journal are the only first-hand reflection we have of a personality of major importance in the life of Emerson, that of the beautiful and gifted Ellen Louisa Tucker, whom he married in 1829. The depth and transforming effect on him of their happy love is a universally acknowledged biographical fact, as is the tragic, shattering effect of her early death in 1831.
Letters, poems, and fragments of a journal are the only first-hand reflection we have of a personality of major importance in the life of Emerson, that of the beautiful and gifted Ellen Louisa Tucker, whom he married in 1829. The depth and transforming effect on him of their happy love is a universally acknowledged biographical fact, as is the tragic, shattering effect of her early death in 1831.