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England's Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. -
William Cullen Bryant publishes "Thanatopsis"
"Thanatopsis" is a poem, meaning 'a consideration of death. -
Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book
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James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers
The Pioneers is historical novel. -
Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English.
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John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency, in which he calls for the abolition of slavery.
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. -
France's Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, a noted study of U.S. political and social institution.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection, Essays, including "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul"
Ralph Waldo Emerson led the transcendentalist movement. -
James Russell Lowell publishes The Billow Papers, satirical poems opposing the Mexican War and written in a Yankee dialect.
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet. -
Emily Dickinson begins to copy her poems into bound booklets.
