Ralph Waldo Emerson Autobiography

Nelli KamolavaRALPHWALDO EMERSON was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.Ralph Waldo Emerson Family and early lifeRalph Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803,a son of Ruth Haskins and the Reverent William Emerson, a Unitarian minister.Ralph Waldo was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood; the others were William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles Three other children—Phebe, John Clarke, and Mary Caroline—died in childhood Family Tree( paternal line)Reverend Peter Bulkeley(1583-1659)-a Puritan, a founder and the first minister of Concord.Reverend Joseph EmersonEdward Bulkeley Elizabeth BulkeleyEdward EmersonJoseph Emerson, a ministerWilliam Emerson, a ministerWilliam Emerson Jr. a pastor and a ministerRalph Waldo Emerson Education and Early careerEmerson's formal schooling began at the Boston Latin School in 1812, when he was nine. In October 1817, at age 14, Emerson went to Harvard College( Emerson started a journal in a series of notebooks that would be called "Wide World".) After Harvard, Emerson assisted his brother William in a school for young women , after