![]() Overall, her childhood consisted of all of the resources required to raise a bright, successful, contributing member of society: loving support and structure from her intelligent and slightly eccentric parents, material resources, an excellent education, and plenty of socializing contact with others of her socioeconomic group- white, well-to-do people in Pittsburg. She admits in her memoir that she received an excellent education there, though as a teenager she chafed against the rules and restrictions of her school. Dillard’s prose, with its direct tributes to and echoes of Thoreau’s Walden and Emerson’s lyrical essays, participates in a modern usage of this unique American philosophy and imagination that flowered during the 1830s and 1840s.ĭillard attended public school through fifth grade, then attended a private school called the Ellis School. The major contribution of Transcendentalism remains the view that divinity permeates nature and humanity, joining them together. ![]() ![]() This intellectual awakening-together with Dillard’s description of the land, its history, its rocks and stones, and its creatures-ties Dillard to the American Romantic period of American letters, particularly to Transcendentalism. ![]()
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