Frank Preston Stearns, who grew up among the abolitionist and literary circles of Massachusetts, recalls Concord thirty years before and the writers he knew there: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Further sketches portray Matthew Arnold, David Wasson, Wendell Phillips, the visitors to Celia Thaxter’s Appledore and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Personal reminiscence of the New England renaissance from someone who knew its figures. Download the free EPUB.