Month: June 2006

Here’s an interesting item: a very early use of the term “anarchist,” and one which is rather more sympathetic than most early uses, although it is still, in this instance, a pejorative. I’m inclined to read this one against the grain, and be rather fond of the anarchistic Mr. Anything. Mr. Anything, the “Anarchist.” To the Editor of the Christian Observer. [May, 1807] – – SHOULD your observing eye, in the course of its comprehensive range, have lighted on any character in the religious world at all resembling the picture I am about to exhibit; I shall depend on the […]

Caroline Dall’s report of Margaret Fuller’s March, 1841 “coversation” on mythology, Margaret and Her Friends, is now available in pdf in the Labyrinth. This set of ten meetings between Fuller, Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, James Freeman Clarke and others, is superb reading, and gives a taste of what members of the transcendentalist circle were reading and discussing. Give it a look.