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  Louisa May Alcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alcott was the daughter of noted Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May the third, and though of New England parentage and residence, was born in Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Alcott family moved to the Utopian Fruitlands community for a brief interval in 1843-1844, and then after its collapse to rented rooms, and subsequently a house in Concord purchased with her mother's inheritance and help from Emerson.
E-books by Louisa May Alcott at Classici Stranieri
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 Book Notes- little-women - AOL Homework Help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in German town, Pennsylvania, where her father, Bronson Alcott—a transcendentalist philosopher and an educator—directed a school for small children.
An advocate of women's rights, Alcott remained unmarried in an age when marriage and motherhood were considered the central events of a woman's life, and achieved such a degree of literary success that she was able to pay off the family's huge debt with royalties from her writing.
Louisa May Alcott's father, Bronson Alcott, was a leading figure in the philosophical school known as transcendentalism, as was the Alcotts' neighbor in Concord, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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 Biography of Louisa Alcott -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
She was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May, and though of New England parentage and residence, was born in Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Alcott's early education had included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau but had chiefly been in the hands of her father, and in her girlhood and early womanhood she had fully shared the trials and poverty incident to the life of a peripatetic idealist.
The story of her life and career was initially competently told in Ednah D. Cheney's Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (Boston, 1889) and then in Madeleine B. Stern's seminal biography Louisa May Alcott (University of Oklahoma Press, 1950).
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 Bronson Alcott
Alcott's own records, as well as those made by his illustrious assistants, Elizabeth Palmer
However, his disappointment was lessened when he learned of the success of Alcott House, a school founded by his disciples in England.
1969), and F. Dahlstrand (1982); biograpy of his wife, Abigail May Alcott, by C. Barton (1996); studies by G. Haefner (1937, repr.
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 Geometry.Net - Authors: Alcott Louisa M
Alcott draws her material from her own family and from the New England milieu where she had grown up.
(from Louisa May Alcott, Her Life Letters, and Journals Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia) as the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott (1799-1888).
Outwardly a self sacrificing, if slightly eccentric, New England spinster, Louisa May Alcott led a rich inner life that enabled her to deal with her father's indifference and to create, under a pseudonym, heroines who smoked hashish and exacted vengeance against uncaring males" dust jacket.
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 WIST - A Collection of Quotations :: A
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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 OLD NEWS Index - 1995-2005
John and Abigail Adams Have Doubts About Their Daughter’s Suitor.
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Lawyer Says American Colonists May Criticize Their Government.
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