‘God’s Scrivener’ Review: The Inspiration of Jones Very

Jones Very (1813-80) made everyone uncomfortable. Ralph Waldo Emerson, no charmer himself at social gatherings, said Very was like “a corpse in the apartment,” a mood-killer best avoided. Bronson Alcott, the founder of the failed utopian community of Fruitlands, in Massachusetts, and not a paragon…

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