I dislike coming to the end of the biography of Thoreau, I feel like I'm just getting to know him. His father dies in the summer of 1859, and then Caroline Healey Dall comes to give a lecture, and stays over with the Thoreaus.
She has a diary, essays and sketches (another), and other documents, including a history of Transcendentalism you can read in it's 38 pages. She's only 5 years younger than Thoreau. Before that she wrote Margaret and Her Friends: Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller (Gutenberg).
She grew up in Boston, got married and lived in Toronto. Her son was a naturalist, she spent her later years living with his family in DC. Her husband moved to Calcutta to preach. Doesn't say what happened to her other child or what eventually happened to her husband. I guess he died in India.
I'd like to read: Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America by Wayne, Tiffany K, and Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall.
She attended Fuller's conversations.
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