1. Transcendentalism
Nature's beauty comes through "the plastic power of the human eye" which lets us appreciate natural things "in and for themselves" yet it also finds "correspondences" which translate the landscape into human meaning ("Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts"). ... She also transcribed Alcott's "Conversations with Children on the Gospels" which was published one year later. ... She used Emerson's doctrine of self-trust to examine the women's condition in the 19th century. She advocated women rights in her "Women in the Nineteeth Century". ...
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