Nancy Haverington hopes to raise $8,000 to retrace the footsteps of Mary Moody Emerson and write her story in a screenplay.

Mentor and Muse to nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson and whose writing shows up in his famous essays unacknowledged, Nature Writer who sparked Henry David Thoreau’s environmental imagination, Mystic who inadvertently cracked old religion letting spirituality loose, Spinster who rejected conformity at her own peril and forged her own path: Mary Moody Emerson.

Nancy Haverington has launched Mary Moody Emerson: Angel of Death on the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter. This campaign will help fund Nancy’s travels across New England to experience the landscape that spoke to Mary and the cities that wouldn’t listen. It will also help fund her research at historical societies and libraries along her path. A successful campaign will give her time to write this wild story in a feature length drama.

Ralph Waldo Emerson called Mary the “best writer in New England.” His biographer, Robert D. Richardson writes, “Her writing…has been shamefully ignored….” Of her eccentricities he wrote, “She was at bottom not an amusing maiden aunt but a visionary.” Mary’s biographer, Phyllis Cole writes, “Mary’s writing amounts to an early and groundbreaking woman’s text of American Romanticism, powerful for its positive vision and for its record of conflict and self-silencing.” And, “…her language of solitude, nature, and imagination directly nurtured the more renowned generation that followed hers.”

Nancy Haverington’s screenplay, The Silent Seed, has been nominated for best unproduced script by the 2017 International Film Festival in Nice. Now she is out to right the wrong of Mary’s obscurity, put her on the map where she belongs, and tell the wild story of this unique character. Mary, 4’3”, blonde hair, penetrating blue eyes darted from town to town, from mountains to ocean confronting ministers and writers leaving them tongue-tied. She withdrew again and again to the White Mountains of Maine to grieve, find ecstasy in solitude and nature and, to write.

Mary Moody Emerson: Angel of Death, a screenplay by Nancy Haverington

Contact Information:

Nancy Haverington
Phone: 978-417-1409
Email: nhaverington@live.com
Website: www.nancyhaverington.com