Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New Englan...
Radner, Joan Newlon![Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/430/43053572/CHSBZCOP0343053572.jpg)
The lyceum movement gained momentum in the decades preceding the Civil War, presenting members the opportunity to participate in literary life and discuss the issues of the day. While urban lyceums played host to a who's who of nineteenth-century intellectual life, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony, literary societies also cropped up in thousands of villages across the n...