Mary Moody Emerson
(1774-1863)
American writer
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Mary Moody Emerson (August 23, 1774 – May 1, 1863) was an American letter writer and diarist. She was known not only as her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson's “earliest and best teacher,” but also as a “spirited and original genius in her own right”. Ralph Waldo Emerson considered her presence in his life a “blessing which nothing else in education could supply”; and her vast body of writing—her thousands of letters and journal entries spanning more than fifty years—“became one of Emerson's most important books”. Her surviving documents reveal the voice of a “woman who […] had something to say to her contemporaries and who can continue to speak to ours” about “the great truths that were the object of her life's pilgrimage”.
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23 August 1774
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1 May 1863 (aged 88)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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