a women's rights activist, Transcendentalist writer, and friend of Emerson and Thoreau whose essay, "A Summer on the Lakes," about her 1843 visit to Wisconsin and Illinois, was printed in her book At Home and Abroad.

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[Source: Notable American Women: a Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ; 1971-1980). ]