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Henry David Thoreau: Walden Pond cabin



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Henry David Thoreau: Walden Pond cabin
Henry David Thoreau's cabin, illustration from the title page of an edition of his Walden, which was first published in 1854.
From Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Associated with these two major figures were such minor Transcendentalists as Bronson Alcott, George Ripley, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Jones Very. Fuller edited The Dial, the chief Transcendental magazine, and was important in the feminist movement.















New England reformers and historians


A worldwide movement for change that exploded in the revolutions of 1848 naturally attracted numerous Americans. Reform was in the air, particularly in New England. At times even Brahmins and Transcendentalists took part. William Lloyd Garrison, ascetic and fanatical, was a moving spirit in the fight against slavery; his weekly newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), despite a small circulation, was its most influential organ. A contributor to the newspaper—probably the greatest writer associated with the movement—was John Greenleaf Whittier. His simple but emotional poems on behalf of abolition were collected in such volumes as Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question…(1837), Voices of Freedom (1846), and Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1850). The outstanding novelist of the movement—so far as effect was concerned—was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) combined the elements of contemporary humour and sentimental fiction in such a powerful manner that it, according to some, helped to precipitate the Civil War.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1880.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-11212)
One other group of writers—and a great novelist—contributed to the literature of New England in this period of its greatest glory. The group consisted of several historians who combined scholarly methods learned abroad with vivid and dramatic narration. These included George Bancroftauthor of History of the United States (completed in 12 volumes in 1882), and John Lothrop Motley, who traced the history of the Dutch Republic and the United Netherlands in nine fascinating volumes (1856–74). The leading member of the group was Francis Parkman, who, in a series of books (1851–92), wrote as a historian of the fierce contests between France and England that marked the advance of the American frontier and vividly recorded his own Western travels in The Oregon Trail (1849).

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