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Women of the Transcendentalist Club

By: Dawn Hutchinson

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This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.

This book brings together 13 short biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. Each chapter details that particular subject’s connection to Transcendentalism, while the book…

This book brings together 13 short biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. Each chapter details that particular subject’s connection to Transcendentalism, while the book begins with a working definition of the movement. Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson wanted to address transcendence in nature, while Henry David Thoreau focused on self-reliance. While they are familiar names in American history, Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, Pauline Hopkins, Edmonia Highgate and the others in this volume deserve to be more familiar to the public too. These women contributed much to the writing and activities of the Transcendentalist movement, and, as such, this volume fills a major gap in existing studies on the movement.

Dr Dawn Hutchinson has taught at the Philosophy and Religion Department at Christopher Newport University, USA, since 2004. She specializes in American religions, particularly New Religious Movements. Her most recent book is Transcendentalist Women (2022), while her other publications include Secret of Success: The Link between American Prosperity Theology and Business Self-Help Literature (2019) and Antiquity and Social Reform: Religious Experience in the Unification Church, Feminist Wicca and the Nation of Yahweh (2010). She holds an MA in Comparative Religions from the University of South Florida and a PhD in American Religious History from Florida State University.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-8948-X
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8948-3
Date of Publication: 2023-02-13

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-0111-1
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0111-5
Date of Publication: 2024-02-20

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-8949-8
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8949-0
Date of Publication: 2024-02-20

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, Religion and Faith, Sociology

Pages: 207

Subject Codes:

BIC: BGL, HRLK, JFSJ1
THEMA: DNBL, QRVK, JBSF1

Pages: 207

“This book fills a gap in the literature on American Transcendentalism. Women Transcendentalists have been studied, and even biographies written about some of them, but until now, no one has done what Dr Hutchinson has accomplished: to paint short, biographical portraits of thirteen Transcendentalist women in the same volume. The reader can either read about each woman individually, or compare two or more women in the volume. But that’s not all. Dr Hutchinson has also written about the ways that these women were linked to Transcendentalist values and activities. Transcendentalists lacked a firm set of doctrines or values that linked them to the same movement. But most of these Transcendentalist women affirmed some of the same ideas: self-culture, education, abolitionism, and writing for publication. These women had another thing in common: most lived substantial parts of their lives in poverty, yet they attained levels of formal education that set them apart from the vast majority of Americans of the time.”
- William Ashcraft Truman State University, USA
“[This book] demonstrates beyond all question that the women associated with Transcendentalism made meaningful and lasting contributions to the growth and development of this movement. Through a series of expertly crafted and thoroughly researched biographical sketches, Dawn Hutchinson invites readers to experience the innovative and noteworthy work of these women who were writers, artists, teachers, activists, and more. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking a more complete understanding of Transcendentalism.”
- Arthur Remillard Professor of Religious Studies and Department Chair, Saint Francis University, USA

Meet The Author

Dawn Hutchinson

Antiquity and Social Reform

Religious Experience in the Unification Church, Feminist Wicca and Nation of Yahweh