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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.”
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 ...
American wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Name variations: Lydia Jackson Emerson. Born Lydia Jackson, Sept 20, 1802, in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died 1892; m. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882, Transcendentalist), Sept 14 1835; children: Ellen Tucker Emerson (b. 1839); Edith Emerson (b. 1841); Waldo Emerson (1836–1842); Edward Emerson (b. 1844).
Life of Lidian Jackson Emerson. 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. Delores Bird Carpenter has carefully edited this narrative to enhance continuity and to ensure completeness.
