Women in Conversation: The Legacies of Transcendental Thought and Culture with Ariel Silver
In this episode of Historians & Their Histories, Ariel Silver tells us about female transcendental thought and its influence on other social movements of the nineteenth century. Prof. Silver highlights several collections held at the MHS that connect to reformers such as Margaret Fuller and Caroline Wells Healey Dall and their legacies.
She is the recipient of an Alyson R. Miller Fellowship from the MHS.
To learn more about MHS fellowships and how to apply, please visit this page.
Episode Special Guest:
Ariel Silver is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Virginia University and President of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. She is the author of The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). She is currently at work on The Conversationalists, a book project on nineteenth century women reformers, for which she has received the Alyson R. Miller Fellowship at MHS and the NERFC Fellowship at MHS, the Schlesinger Library, and the Boston Athenaeum.
This episode uses materials from:
Colocate by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported)
