494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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How to Deal With the Grief of a Teenager
The first case that he deals with is Ralph Waldo Emerson and in some ways that demonstrates this step by step approach as strongly as any of the other cases in the book. In the case of Emerson who was mourning his teenage bride I mean he was eight years older than Ellen Tucker. And they were engaged when she was 17 and married when she was 18, but she died at 19 of the tuberculosis or consumption they would have called it. It's interesting that consumption also really took away quite a number of Emerson's own family members, his brothers to later in life so it was rampant.
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