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[5] Frederic Henry Hedge. Originally, the group went by the name "Hedge's Club" because it usually met when Hedge was visiting from Bangor, Maine. [1] The name Transcendental Club was given to the group by the public and not by its participants. The name was coined in a January 1837 review of Emerson's essay "Nature" and was intended ...
Frederic Henry Hedge (December 12, 1805 – August 21, 1890) was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist.He was a founder of the Transcendental Club, originally called Hedge's Club, [1] and active in the development of Transcendentalism, although he distanced himself from the movement as it advanced.
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
Hedge wrote: "There was no club in the strict sense ... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women", earning the nickname "the brotherhood of the 'Like-Minded'". [27] Beginning in 1839, Ripley edited Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature: fourteen volumes of translations meant to demonstrate the breadth of Transcendental thoughts ...
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George Ripley founded Brook Farm based on Transcendental ideals. In October 1840, George Ripley announced to the Transcendental Club that he was planning to form a Utopian community. [ 7 ] Brook Farm, as it would be called, was based on the ideals of Transcendentalism; its founders believed that by pooling labor they could sustain the community ...
Members of the Transcendental Club (19 P) Pages in category "Transcendentalism" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Ripley was also among the few regular women guests of the male-dominated Transcendental Club in the 1830s, and she published an essay on women in The Dial. In July 1841,The Dial published a letter from Ripley called "Letter from Zoar", an account of her experience visiting a communistic society of "Separatists" in Zoar, Ohio in 1837. [7]