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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 10: the Dial. (search)
encounter in endeavoring to keep her magazine somewhere midway between the demands of Theodore Parker on the one side and those of Alcott on the other. What Theodore Parker alone would have made it may be judged by his Massachusetts Quarterly Review, which followed it; which, as he said, was to be the Dial with a beard, but which turned out to be the beard without the Dial. What Mr. Alcott alone would have made of it may be judged by Heraud's Monthly Magazine, which did not, any more than Parker's Quarterly, bear comparison in real worth and suggestiveness with the Dial itself. That on Alcott, at least, some gentle restrictive pressure had to be exercised may be seen by his rather indignant introduction to Days from a diary, in the last number that Margaret Fuller edited. Here he chafes at some delay in publishing his contribution, and adds significantly : The Dial prefers a style of thought and diction not mine; nor can I add to its popularity with its chosen readers. A fit
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 11: Brook Farm. (search)
did not live at Brook Farm, but at Mendon, Mass. It appears from Mr. Alcott's Ms. diary that in October, 1840, while the whole matter was taking form, he met George Ripley and Miss Fuller at Mr. Emerson's in Concord, for the purpose of discussing the new theme. Neither Alcott nor Emerson accepted the project in its completeness. Alcott's Ms Diary, XIV. 170. During the following month Alcott enumerates these persons as being likely to join the proposed community,--Ripley, Emerson, Parker, S. D. Robbins, and Miss Fuller. Alcott's Ms Diary, XIV. 199. But I know no reason to suppose that any of these, except Mr. Ripley himself, had any such serious intention; though Mr. Emerson himself was so far influenced by the prevailing tendency as to offer to share his house with Mr. Alcott and his family, while suggesting that other like-minded. persons should settle near them in Concord. Mr. Alcott himself speaks of Brook Farm as our community; but perhaps uses the words in a very gen