The Concord Free Public Library and Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association (RWEMA) are pleased to host Professor Kate Culkin for a discussion of her new book, Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy (University of Massachusetts Press, July 2025)—the first full-length study of the lives of Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughters. Building on archival research into the extensive correspondence between the sisters, it adds to the growing body of work on women’s contribution to Transcendentalism while opening a window onto the rich and understudied family life of the “Sage of Concord.” 

In her talk, Professor Culkin will focus on the critical role the manuscript holdings of the Concord Free Public Library's William Munroe Special Collections played in her ability to write the book.

This free event will be held in the Goodwin Forum on the first floor of the Main Library and simultaneously broadcast over Zoom. Find more information and register here.