Professors Bobby O’Brien and Robert Holmes gave us an
interesting presentation on two dynamic women of the mid-1800s in Concord,
Massachusetts….Mary Moody Emerson and Mary Merrick Brooks. These women were intellectual leaders in a
time when women were generally not included in higher education. Learn more about Mary Moody Emerson and Mary Merrick
Brooks by reviewing the following items.
Books:
To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in
Thoreau’s Concord by Sandra Herbert Petrulionis
Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform by
Len Gougeon
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen by
Gary L. Collison
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of
Transcendentalism: A Family History by Cole, Phyllis
Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition
of Slavery by Henry Mayer
Two journal articles on Concord by Robert A. Gross
The Concord Library is a great additional source -www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/scoll.html
