the women.

This archive catalogues the lives and works of four nineteenth-century women. Each of these women was born in a separate New England state. Each of these women received educations of contrasting levels and quality. Each of these women pursued dissimilar personal and career paths. A few married early, a few late; two were widowed, two survived their husbands. Several were polyglots. One bore children—one was a sculptor; all were poets. All contributed to the main literary journals of their day; all published volumes of their own work. Each either hosted or attended literary salons as a means of advancing their publishing career; all of their paths intersected through the site of
a single New York City salon in the late 1840s.