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`American Bloomsbury':Concord's literary lions, fueled by sexual tension?

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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20070110
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Byline: Glenn C. Altschuler

"American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work" by Susan Cheever; Simon & Schuster ($26)

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In the 1840s and '50s, Henry James once suggested, Concord, Mass., was "the biggest little place in America." Lured by the magnetic and magnanimous Ralph Waldo Emerson, the nation's literary giants _ the American Transcendentalists _ lived in or near the town. Without Emerson's dream of community and the creativity unleashed by their ...

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