Word: livedness
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A few steps from the museum, across Cambridge Turnpike, is the house where Emerson lived from 1835 until his death in 1882. Here he entertained the Alcotts, the Hawthornes and Thoreau, who was so frequent a visitor that Emerson's children regarded him as a member of the family. On...
On Monument Street, several blocks north, the brooding gray Old Manse boasts an equally rich literary pedigree and original furnishings to match. Emerson, who lived there in 1834-1835, began writing his first great essay, "Nature," in the second-floor study. Hawthorne lived there with his beloved bride Sophia from...
The cabin Thoreau built in 1845 and lived in for two years on Walden Pond, south of town, was sold during his lifetime and disassembled to patch a barn and roof a pig sty. But the site is marked by a cairn of rocks, started by Bronson Alcott after Thoreau...
Toole never won literary recognition during his life; Confederacy wasn't published until more than a decade after his suicide in 1969. Kate Chopin is another New Orleans writer whose masterpiece--The Awakening--went unappreciated until after her death in 1904. Her achingly wistful novel offers a counterpoint to Toole...
Chopin and her husband Oscar lived with their five sons (a daughter was born later) at 1413 Louisiana Avenue, on the edge of the wealthy, floral-scented Garden District. The house is not open to the public, but this architecturally noteworthy area is worth a stroll.