Congratulations to Professor Kate Culkin. Emerson’s Daughters is longlisted for the prestigious Plutarch Award from Biographers International Organization (BIO).
Congratulations to Dr. Kate Culkin (Professor and Deputy Chair) whose book Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy(University of Massachusetts Press) is longlisted for the prestigious 14th annual Plutarch Award, the only international literary award for biography judged exclusively by biographers.
Emerson’s Daughters charts the lives of Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, who were were the daughters of Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The sisters grew up in the heart of Concord, Massachusetts’s famed literary community. This is the first book-length work on Ellen and Edith, and therefore recovers a less well-known chapter of Women’s History in the United States.
Listen to Dr. Culkin discuss Emerson’s Daughters on the BIO podcast
Dr. Culkin is Professor of History at BCC, and her research focus is nineteenth-century Women’s History in the United States. She is the author of Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). You can learn more about the book here.
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