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Lidian Jackson Emerson (born Lydia Jackson; September 20, 1802 – November 13, 1892) was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children.
Lidian Jackson Emerson (born Lydia Jackson; September 20, 1802 – November 13, 1892) was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet, and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children.
Lidian was the mother of Emerson's four children and a social activist. She lived with Emerson and his mother Ruth in their Concord house until her death in 1892.
In 1834, Emerson’s travels on the lecture circuit took him to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he met Lydia Jackson and fell in love for the second time. She was his intellectual partner, and he was enamored of the “perfect sympathy that exists between like minds.” They were married on September 14, 1835, at her family home.
Myerson, Joel, 'Lidian Jackson Emerson, “Transcendental Bible” (1841?)', Transcendentalism: A Reader (New York, NY, 2000; online edn, Oxford Academic, 31 Oct. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195122121.003.0030, accessed 4 May 2024.
Life of Lidian Jackson Emerson. Book. Delores Bird Carpenter. 1991. Published by: Michigan State University Press. View. summary. Ellen Tucker Emerson's biography of her mother, Lidian Jackson Emerson, provides important insights into the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife of 46 years.
1 de feb. de 1989 · Lidian Jackson Emerson (1802-1892), the second wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson, corresponded with a large circle of relatives and friends between 1826 and 1876. In a letter to her sister, dated February 4, 1842, she described her grief on the death of her five-year-old son who had died a week before of scarlet fever. Dear Lucy,
