Boston club consisting of Transcendentalists, philosophers, and authors. The Boston Radical Club was founded in Spring, 1867 and disbanded in 1880. Its members included
Ednah Dow Cheney,
Mary Grew, Julia Ward Howe, Nora Perry, Mary Elizabeth Fiske Sargent, John Turner Sargent, Wendell Phillips, Bronson Alcott,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cyrus Augustus Bartol, Samuel Longfellow, and John Weiss.