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""In exhaustive detail, Emerson's Daughters traces the lives of these sisters and brilliantly succeeds in capturing the many roles that Edith and Ellen Emerson handled for their father, mother, brother, and extended family and friends. A tremendously important and detailed contribution to the study of Concord authors and the Emerson family.""--Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, coeditor of The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition ""The inaugural book-length treatment of the lives of Ellen and Edith, Emerson's Daughters is a truly important study with impeccable research and careful prose that is well-timed for this moment in Emerson scholarship.""--Christopher Hanlon, author of Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style

“In exhaustive detail, Emerson’s Daughters traces the lives of these sisters and brilliantly succeeds in capturing the many roles that Edith and Ellen Emerson handled for their father, mother, brother, and extended family and friends. A tremendously important and detailed contribution to the study of Concord authors and the Emerson family.”—Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, coeditor of The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition  “The inaugural book-length treatment of the lives of Ellen and Edith, Emerson’s Daughters is a truly important study with impeccable research and careful prose that is well-timed for this moment in Emerson scholarship.”—Christopher Hanlon, author of Emerson’s Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style

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Kate Culkin is professor of history at Bronx Community College. She is author of Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography and an associate editor of the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and outlets including New England Quarterly, New York Archives, and Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History.

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