At 11:38 PM 4/7/01 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote:
>The section in the back of my dictionary with biographical entries merely
>says she was an American author, critic and reformer, born in 1810, died
>in 1850.
>
>My copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (published in 1955, the
>Centennial Edition) has several quotes from her, none of them the quote
>beginning the novel. I find the first quote of hers in there interesting:
>"I myself am more divine than any I see."
Does this seem to place her as a Transcendentalist?
JDG
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