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“In this generous collection of reports and remembrances, many drawn from unpublished manuscripts or obscure magazines and books, Thoreau emerges as neither a nay saying skulker nor a high minded icon but as the fully realised human being his contemporaries knew him to be. Thoreau in His Own Time is both an on-the-spot biography and a fascinating register of the cultural attitudes that shaped Thoreau’s nineteenth-century reputation, woven together by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis’s lively, insightful introductions.”—Robert D. Habich, author, Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson’s First Biographers and The Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age

In this generous collection of reports and remembrances, many drawn from unpublished manuscripts or obscure magazines and books, Thoreau emerges as neither a nay saying skulker nor a high minded icon but as the fully realised human being his contemporaries knew him to be. Thoreau in His Own Time is both an on-the-spot biography and a fascinating register of the cultural attitudes that shaped Thoreau's nineteenth-century reputation, woven together by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis's lively, insightful introductions. -Robert D. Habich, author, Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson's First Biographers and The Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age

Sandra Petrulionis has brought together a first-rate collection of primary materials about one of our most original American writers. Ranging from the recollections of fellow writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman to those of friends and relatives, Thoreau in His Own Time is an outstanding book that will engage general readers and specialists alike. --Susan Belasco, editor, Stowe in Her Own Time In this generous collection of reports and remembrances, many drawn from unpublished manuscripts or obscure magazines and books, Thoreau emerges as neither a naysaying skulker nor a highminded icon but as the fully realized human being his contemporaries knew him to be. Thoreau in His Own Time is both an on-the-spot biography and a fascinating register of the cultural attitudes that shaped Thoreau's nineteenth-century reputation, woven together by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis's lively, insightful introductions. --Robert D. Habich, author, Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson's First Biographers and the Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age Thoreau in His Own Time is a type of composite biography that highlights the various facets of Thoreau's career. He lived many lives, not only the one he passed at Walden Pond, and they all warrant discussion in this fascinating and wonderfully researched edition of memoirs by those who knew him. --Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico

<p> Sandra Petrulionis has brought together a first-rate collection of primary materials about one of our most original American writers. Ranging from the recollections of fellow writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman to those of friends and relatives, Thoreau in His Own Time is an outstanding book that will engage general readers and specialists alike. --Susan Belasco, editor, Stowe in Her Own Time <p>

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"Author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord, editor of Journal 8: 1854 in The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism and More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's ""Walden"" for the Twenty-First Century, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is a professor of English and American Studies and the program coordinator for Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Penn State Altoona."

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