Lidian Jackson Emerson (1802-1892) was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and died in Concord, Massachusetts. She was the second wife of essayist, lecturer, poet, and leader of the nineteenth-century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom she married in 1835. She was involved in many social issues of her day and advocated for the abolition of slavery, the rights of women and of Native Americans, and the welfare of animals. In 1877, she expressed to Amos Bronson Alcott that she wished to meet with Mary Baker Eddy.

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