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Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors
Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors
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CONTENTS
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1. A Village of Literary Shrines
Abodes of Thoreau--The Alcotts--Channing--Sanborn--Hudson--Hoar— Wheildon--Bartlett--The Historic Common--Cemetery--Church.
Chapter 2. The Old Manse
Abode of Dr. Ripley--The Emersons--Hawthorne--Learned Mrs. Ripley—Its Famed Study and Apartments--Grounds--Guests--Ghosts--A Transcendental Social Court.
Chapter 3. A Storied River and Battle-Field
Where Zenobia Drowned--Where Embattled Farmers Fought--Thoreau’s Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc.
Chapter 4. The Home of Emerson
An Intellectual Capitol and Pharos--Its Grounds, Library, and Literary Workshop--Famous Rooms and Visitants--Relics and Reminiscences of the Concord Sage.
Chapter 5. The Orchard House and Its Neighbors
Ellery Channing--Margaret Fuller--The Alcotts--Professor Harris—Summer School of Philosophy--Where Little Women was written and Robert Hagburn lived--Where Cyril Norton was slain.
Chapter 6. Hawthorne’s Wayside Home.
Sometime Abode of Alcott--Hawthorne--Lathrop--Margaret Sidney—Storied Apartments--Hawthorne’s Study--His Mount of Vision--Where Septimius Felton and Rose Garfield dwelt.
Chapter 7. The Walden of Thoreau
A Transcendental Font--Emerson’s Garden--Thoreau’s Cove--Cairn— Beanfield--Resort of Emerson--Hawthorne--Channing--Hosmer--Alcott, etc.
Chapter 8. The Hill-Top Hearsed With Pines
Last Resting-Place of the Illustrious Concord Company--Their Graves beneath the Piny Boughs.
In And Out of Literary Boston
In Boston
A Golden Age of Letters--Literary Associations--Isms--Clubs—Where Hester Prynne and Silas Lapham lived--The Corner Book-store--Home of Fields--Sargent--Hilliard--Aldrich--Deland--Parkman--Holmes--Howells-- Moulton--Hale--Howe--Jane Austin, etc.
Out of Boston
Chapter 1. Cambridge: Elmwood: Mount Auburn
Chapter 2. Belmont: The Wayside Inn: Home of Whittier
Chapter 3. Salem: Whittier’s Oak-Knoll and Beyond
Chapter 4. Webster’s Marshfield: Brook Farm, Etc
In Berkshire with Hawthorne
Chapter 1. The Graylock and Hoosac Region
Chapter 2. Lenox and Middle Berkshire
A Day with the Good Gray Poet
For some years it has been the delightful privilege of the writer of the present volume to ramble and sojourn in the scenes amid which his best-beloved authors erst lived and wrote. He has made repeated pilgrimages to most of the shrines herein described, and has been, at one time or another, favored by intercourse and correspondence with many of the authors adverted to or with their surviving friends and neighbors. In the ensuing pages he has endeavored to portray these shrines in pen-pictures which, it is hoped, may be interesting to those who are unable to visit them and helpful and companionable for those who can and will. If certain prominent American authors receive little more than mention in these pages, it is mainly because so few objects and places associated with their lives and writings can now be indisputably identified: in some instances the writer has expended more time upon fruitless quests for shrines which proved to be non-existent or of doubtful genuineness than upon others which are themes for the chapters of this booklet.
T. F. W.
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1. A Village of Literary Shrines
Abodes of Thoreau--The Alcotts--Channing--Sanborn--Hudson--Hoar— Wheildon--Bartlett--The Historic Common--Cemetery--Church.
Chapter 2. The Old Manse
Abode of Dr. Ripley--The Emersons--Hawthorne--Learned Mrs. Ripley—Its Famed Study and Apartments--Grounds--Guests--Ghosts--A Transcendental Social Court.
Chapter 3. A Storied River and Battle-Field
Where Zenobia Drowned--Where Embattled Farmers Fought--Thoreau’s Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc.
Chapter 4. The Home of Emerson
An Intellectual Capitol and Pharos--Its Grounds, Library, and Literary Workshop--Famous Rooms and Visitants--Relics and Reminiscences of the Concord Sage.
Chapter 5. The Orchard House and Its Neighbors
Ellery Channing--Margaret Fuller--The Alcotts--Professor Harris—Summer School of Philosophy--Where Little Women was written and Robert Hagburn lived--Where Cyril Norton was slain.
Chapter 6. Hawthorne’s Wayside Home.
Sometime Abode of Alcott--Hawthorne--Lathrop--Margaret Sidney—Storied Apartments--Hawthorne’s Study--His Mount of Vision--Where Septimius Felton and Rose Garfield dwelt.
Chapter 7. The Walden of Thoreau
A Transcendental Font--Emerson’s Garden--Thoreau’s Cove--Cairn— Beanfield--Resort of Emerson--Hawthorne--Channing--Hosmer--Alcott, etc.
Chapter 8. The Hill-Top Hearsed With Pines
Last Resting-Place of the Illustrious Concord Company--Their Graves beneath the Piny Boughs.
In And Out of Literary Boston
In Boston
A Golden Age of Letters--Literary Associations--Isms--Clubs—Where Hester Prynne and Silas Lapham lived--The Corner Book-store--Home of Fields--Sargent--Hilliard--Aldrich--Deland--Parkman--Holmes--Howells-- Moulton--Hale--Howe--Jane Austin, etc.
Out of Boston
Chapter 1. Cambridge: Elmwood: Mount Auburn
Chapter 2. Belmont: The Wayside Inn: Home of Whittier
Chapter 3. Salem: Whittier’s Oak-Knoll and Beyond
Chapter 4. Webster’s Marshfield: Brook Farm, Etc
In Berkshire with Hawthorne
Chapter 1. The Graylock and Hoosac Region
Chapter 2. Lenox and Middle Berkshire
A Day with the Good Gray Poet
For some years it has been the delightful privilege of the writer of the present volume to ramble and sojourn in the scenes amid which his best-beloved authors erst lived and wrote. He has made repeated pilgrimages to most of the shrines herein described, and has been, at one time or another, favored by intercourse and correspondence with many of the authors adverted to or with their surviving friends and neighbors. In the ensuing pages he has endeavored to portray these shrines in pen-pictures which, it is hoped, may be interesting to those who are unable to visit them and helpful and companionable for those who can and will. If certain prominent American authors receive little more than mention in these pages, it is mainly because so few objects and places associated with their lives and writings can now be indisputably identified: in some instances the writer has expended more time upon fruitless quests for shrines which proved to be non-existent or of doubtful genuineness than upon others which are themes for the chapters of this booklet.
T. F. W.
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