Caroline Healey Dall, known as the most able writer in the women's movement in the 1850s and 1860s, was a second-generation Transcendentalist and a memorialist of the Transcendentalist movement and its major figures. Reformer, lecturer, and miscellaneous writer, she was shaped by her early associations with Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, a willing mentor who introduced her into the wider circle of the Boston-area intellectuals; Margaret Fuller, whose "Conversations" she attended when she was eighteen; and a host of male Transcendentalists, whose lectures and sermons she heard, whose books and articles she read, and with many of whom she was on close personal terms. She attended Ralph Waldo Emerson's lectures and took notes on them as early as the age of twelve, and she was profoundly influenced by the radical Transcendentalist preacher Theodore Parker. Dall became an early apologist for Margaret Fuller, her most significant role model. The Transcendentalist influence...