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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.
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...
Lidian Jackson Emerson (1802-1892) Lidian was Emerson’s second wife and the mother of his four children. His first wife Ellen Louisa Tucker died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1831, after less than two years of marriage.
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Edward Waldo Emerson. Edward Waldo Emerson was the last of Ralph Waldo and Lidian’s four children. He was born on July 10, 1844 and died on January 27, 1930. The Emerson’s first son, Waldo, sadly died of Scarlet Fever at the age of five before Edward was born.
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1813 through 1885, seven years before her death, Lidian Emerson emerges as no less puzzling and decidedly less interesting than she apparently was. To be sure, her bursts of wit-self-deprecating in some letters, incisive elsewhere-hint at the conversational gifts that delighted her friends. Her critiques of transcendentalism sug-
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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).
