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  1. 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.

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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.

  3. 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.

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  5. Learn about the Emerson family, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, his wife Lydia Jackson, and their four children. Find out how Emerson's family influenced his life, work, and legacy as a writer, lecturer, and philosopher.

    • 28 Cambridge Turnpike Concord, MA, 01742 United States
    • concordemerson@gmail.com
    • (978) 369-2236
  6. 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.

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  7. Feb 1, 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...

  8. Abstract. LIDIAN JACKSON EMERSON (1802–1892), Waldo’s second wife, married him in 1835. Waldo changed her name from “Lydia” to “Lidian” upon their marriage, probably because the New England pronunciation of “Lydia Emerson” was awkward. Although she was quoted by a friend as saying Unitarianism was “cold and hard, with scarcely ...

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