Emerson, Lidian Jackson (1802–1892)
Emerson, Lidian Jackson (1802–1892)
American wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Name variations: Lydia Jackson Emerson. Born Lydia Jackson, Sept 20, 1802, in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died 1892; m. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882, Transcendentalist), Sept 14 1835; children: Ellen Tucker Emerson (b. 1839); Edith Emerson (b. 1841); Waldo Emerson (1836–1842); Edward Emerson (b. 1844).
The 2nd wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson, became engaged to him in Jan 1835; though he called her Lidian, was known in his journal as Asia, Queenie, and Queen of Sheba.
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