Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thoreau” in chapter 8 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises:
... the art of pencil-making — his father's occupation — and also of surveying, carpentering, and housekeeping.
So identified was he with the place that Emerson speaks of it in one case as Thoreau 's native town.
Yet from that very familiarity, perhaps, the latter was underestimated by many of his neighbors, as was the case in Edinburgh with Sir Walter Scott, as Mrs. Grant of Laggan describe...
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | Henry David Thoreau | 150 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Henry Thoreau | 194 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Thoreau | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Henry D. Thoreau | 117 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
H. D. Thoreau | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Miss Thoreau | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
David Henry Thoreau | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Helen Thoreau | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
John Thoreau | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.