The same perception, by Hawthorne, Alcott, Ellery Channing, and others, – together with the important fact that it was Emerson’s chosen retreat, – brought those literary men here. “The fixing of his own residence in this town by Emerson was due in part by ancestry, and still more to a perception of the fitness of the region for the abode of a poet and sage. Not all of the Concord writers were originally from Concord but they ended up in the small town for a variety of reasons, according to the book The Story of Concord Told by Concord Writers: At the time that they lived there, the town was mostly known for its role in the American Revolution after the Battle of Concord took place there in 1775. The writers met in the small rural town of Concord, Massachusetts, which is about 20 miles north west of Boston. Bottom Right: William Ellery ChanningĪ few of them, such as Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson, also had deep New England roots and Alcott and Hawthorne were even descended from some of the judges in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 (although they found this deeply shameful.) How Did the Concord Writers Meet? The Concord Writers: Top Left: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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