Patricia Dunlavy Valenti is professor emerita of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. An award-winning teacher who held visiting professorships at the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, she is the author of five books and numerous articles on American literature and biography.

"A critical piece of scholarship on American women artists and women's contributions to transcendentalism, this book remains as relevant today as when it was first published." - Kate Culkin, author of Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy"Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's first volume of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life challenges the critical, cultural, and familial constructions of the wife of one of America's greatest authors, while at the same time challenging our concept of biography itself." - Andrea Knutson, associate professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Oakland University

Patricia Dunlavy Valenti is professor emerita of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. An award-winning teacher who held visiting professorships at the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, she is the author of five books and numerous articles on American literature and biography.

"A critical piece of scholarship on American women artists and women's contributions to transcendentalism, this book remains as relevant today as when it was first published." - Kate Culkin, author of Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy"Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's first volume of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life challenges the critical, cultural, and familial constructions of the wife of one of America's greatest authors, while at the same time challenging our concept of biography itself." - Andrea Knutson, associate professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Oakland University

Patricia Dunlavy Valenti is professor emerita of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. An award-winning teacher who held visiting professorships at the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, she is the author of five books and numerous articles on American literature and biography.

"A critical piece of scholarship on American women artists and women's contributions to transcendentalism, this book remains as relevant today as when it was first published." - Kate Culkin, author of Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy"Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's first volume of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life challenges the critical, cultural, and familial constructions of the wife of one of America's greatest authors, while at the same time challenging our concept of biography itself." - Andrea Knutson, associate professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Oakland University