This essay argues that examining choices Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with their daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, made regarding Ellen's education provides insight into the family's domestic life and helps explain Ellen's work on Ralph Waldo Emerson's later essays, as he suffered from memory loss.

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