In honor of Women’s History Month, here’s a profile I wrote of Mary Moody Emerson, the wise and self-reliant mentor to her nephew Waldo. Published in the Winter 2020 issue of Discover Concord Magazine: https://www.discoverconcordma.com/articles/490-mary-moody-emerson-the-godmother-of-transcendentalism

Image: Mary Moody Emerson and Henry David Thoreau by N.C. Wyeth (1936). Source: William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library