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A letter is presented from U.S. writer and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson to his uncle, Samuel Ripley, in which Emerson discusses his impressions of Charleston, South Carolina.

Examines issues and events that made Theodore Parker the most understudied major writer of the transcendentalist period, as discussed in the book 'American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism,' by Dean Grodzins. Image of Parker as a preacher; Arguments for the American heretic label for Parker; Parker's intellectual accomplishments.

Presents an essay on the biographies of several women during the transcendentalist period in the New England. Struggle of women in establishing societal and artistic roles; Efforts of women for intellectual education; Impact of scholarship programs in promoting female writers.

Presents accounts by Rebecca Codman Butterfield of the Brook Farm founded in 1841. Aims of the community; Transcendentalism; Operations at the Farm; Description of the Farm; Fourier's ideas.

Presents three letters by contemporaries of Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women." Accounts that provide glimpses of the lives of the Alcotts, the Emersons and others who lived in Concord, Massachusetts; Letters by illustrator Elizabeth Susan Greene and old family friend Bessie Holyoke when Alcott was not yet an international celebrity; Letter by Anne B. Adams, John Brown's daughter.

Reviewed: Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843. Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Hawthorne, Sophia.

Reviewed: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life. Vol. 1, 1809-1847. Valenti, Patricia Dunlavy.

Reviewed: Hawthorne in Concord. McFarland, Philip.

Reviewed: The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. Goodwin, Joan.

Reviewed: Transcendental Wife: The Life of Abigail May Alcott. Barton, Cynthia H.

Reviewed: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms. Ronda, Bruce A.

Reviewed: Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History. Cole, Phyllis.

Reviewed: The English Notebooks, 1856-1860. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Reviewed: 'Beneath the American Renaissance:' The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. Reynolds, David S.

Reviewed: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Vol. 16: 1866-1882. Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Reviewed: The House of Emerson. Neufeldt, Leonard.

Reviewed: Emerson: Prospect and Retrospect. Porte, Joel, ed.