Selected List of Works
- Poetry
- Poems (1836)
- Songs in Many Keys (1862)
- Books
- Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence (1855)
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)
- The Professor of the Breakfast-Table (1860)
- The Poet of the Breakfast-Table (1872)
- Over the Teacups (1891)
- Novels
- Elsie Venner (1861)
- The Guardian Angel (1867)
- A Mortal Antipathy (1885)
- Biographies and travelogue
- John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir (1876)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884)
- Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887)
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