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	Amos Bronson Alcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alcott was born on Spindle Hill in the town of Wolcott, New Haven County, Connecticut.
		Alcott publicly debated with Thoreau the use of force and passive resistance to slavery; along with Thoreau he was among the financial and moral supporters of John Brown and occasionally helped fugitive slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
		Alcott refused corporal punishment as a means of disciplining his students; instead, he offered his own hand for an offending student to strike, saying that any failing was the teacher's responsibility.
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	Amos Bronson Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Amos Bronson Alcott was born November 29, 1799.
		Amos Bronson Alcott was unique in the way he embodied and lived out his transcendentalist ideas.
		Alcott believed that the key to social reform and spiritual growth was in the home, in family life.
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	AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT: Biography of Adulthood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Amos Bronson Alcott's formal education ended at age 13 and he decided to become a peddler in the south.
		Alcott was invited by the Boston Infant School Society to take charge of their classroom and there he met Abba May, his soon to be wife.
		There Amos renewed his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and became a member of the Transcendental Club and became involved with The Dial, a Transcendentalist periodical, which was named after the heading Alcott had given a collection of thoughts taken from his journals.
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	Amos Bronson Alcott -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799–March 4, 1888) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American teacher and writer.
		Alcott was born on Spindle Hill in the town of (Click link for more info and facts about Wolcott) Wolcott, (Click link for more info and facts about New Haven County) New Haven County, (A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies) Connecticut.
		The experiment quickly collapsed, and Alcott returned in 1844 to his home near that of (United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)) Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, removing to Boston four years later, and again living in Concord after 1857.
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	Bronson and Abigail Alcott
		Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), educator, philosopher, utopian, and visionary, ran the progressive Temple School in Boston, founded the Fruitlands community in Harvard, Massachusetts, and led many public Socratic "conversations." Although he belonged to no church, Alcott was influential both in the Transcendentalist wing of Unitarianism and in the Free Religion movement which followed.
		Amos was born in Wolcott, Connecticut, the oldest of eight children of Anna Bronson and Joseph Chatfield Alcox, a farm couple.
		Alcott admired Garrison above other abolitionists because he saw him as a "free spirit" who moved beyond narrow party principles to fight all abuses and to "establish truth in the common mind." Abby, whose closest personal friend was Lydia Maria Child and who regularly attended abolitionist meetings, was admired by Garrison himself.
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	Today in History: November 29
		Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher and transcendentalist philosopher, and Abigail May, social worker and reformer, was born in the "disagreeable month" of November, just like her literary creation Jo March, the rambunctious heroine of Little Women.
		During the 1870s, Alcott and her mother were deeply involved in the women's suffrage movement, canvassing door-to-door encouraging women to register to vote.
		Alcott's School of Philosophy was a gathering center for the Transcendentalists and flourished until shortly after his death in 1888.
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	The Wayside: Home of Authors, by Margaret M. Lothrop, 1940
		Alcott often mentioned in his diary the effect of a particular scripture reading or hymn upon one or another of the girls; sometimes Beth discussed the reading with him, sometimes one of the girls copied a verse in her journal.
		Alcott, who was suddenly called to the sickbed of his brother Junius, needed someone to whom he could entrust the teaching of his children and the tending of his vegetables.
		Alcott's letters to her brother and his family or to friends show how wholeheartedly she had entered into their life, how courageous and discerning was her own spirit and mind, and how intuitively quick she was to share joy or sorrow.
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	Amos Bronson Alcott
		Amos Bronson Alcott was a writer, philosopher, schoolteacher, visionary, dreamer, hoper, and perhaps the most abstract, metaphysical, impractical, quintessentially transcendental Transcendentalist of all the New England Transcendentalists.
		Alcott's was fed by the speculation of Greece.
		Alcott showed himself the disciple of Pythagoras in that he was the worshipper of ideal truth and purity, the uncompromising servant of the spiritual laws.
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	Amos Bronson Alcott
		Born in 1799 to an illiterate flax farmer in Wolcott, Connecticut, Amos Bronson Alcott was singular among the Transcendentalists in his unassailable optimism and the extent of his self-education.
		Bronson Alcott was singular among the Transcendentalists in boldly embodying his ideals.
		Alcott was an early admirer of Thoreau's reasoned philosophy of civil disobedience, and acted upon those principles several years before Thoreau did.
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	Geraldine Brooks :: Orpheus at the Plough - about Amos Bronson Alcott
		To read Bronson Alcott’s journals and letters is to understand her difficulty: the truth about her father’s character was far too odd and unorthodox to be shoehorned into an idealized, moralistic tale for Victorian children.
		Born Amos Bronson Alcox on November 29, 1799,on a farm of a few rough acres in the thin-soiled Connecticut hamlet of Spindle Hill,the radical educator received a rudimentary formal schooling.
		Bronson was an unwavering fan of her writing,even when he was the butt of her satire.
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	Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bronson Alcott, educator and philosopher, was born at Spindle Hill, Connecticut, on 29 November 1799.
		Alcott visited with Whitman a number of times over the ensuing weeks and was given a copy of the 1856 Leaves of Grass.
		Alcott wrote to Whitman on 28 April 1868, "I am interested in all you choose to communicate" (Letters 435), and on 10 October 1856 he wrote to Abigail Alcott, "I am well rewarded for finding this extraordinary man" (Letters 200).
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	America's Socrates in Concord: Amos Bronson Alcott
		Amos Bronson Alcott was a major force in educational reform in this country in the early nineteenth century as well as being a transcendental philosopher in his own right.
		Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut in the last year of the seventeenth century.
		Bronson was four years older than Emerson and, though the latter was ultimately better known as the exemplar of American Transcendentalism, Bronson's ideas fertilized the intellectual ground and bore the fruits of much of the literary legacy we call the transcendental tradition.
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	Encyclopedia: Amos Bronson Alcott
		Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical and is only realized through a knowledgeable intuitive awareness that is conditional upon the individual.
		Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy which emerged in New England in the early- to mid-nineteenth century.
		Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868).
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	Wolcott Connecticut - Town Government
		Amos Bronson Alcott (Nov. 29, 1799 — Mar. 4, 1898) educator, philosopher and poet, was born in Wolcott, Conn. The son of Joseph Chatfield Alcox and Anna (Bronson) Alcox.
		Alcott was denounced for blasphemy and obsenity [sic], after the publication of this “Conversations with Children on the Gospel” had revealed to outraged parents just what their offsprings were learning in the way of unorthodoxy.
		Alcott’s sensitive pride, and from her earliest girlhood the second daughter, Louisa, became the chief support of the family.
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	SteinerBooks - Books by Amos Bronson Alcott
		Amos Bronson Alcott (1799—1888) was born to an illiterate flax farmer in Wolcott, Connecticut.
		When Ralph Waldo Emerson met Alcott in Boston in the late 1830s, he was so impressed with his intellect and innovative ideas that he convinced Alcott to move to Concord and join his circle of friends.
		Alcott outlived his closest transcendentalist friends, dying on March 4, 1888, just two days before his famous daughter Louisa succumbed to the effects of mercury poisoning.
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	Little Women, Louisa May Alcott: About the Author
		Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail "Abba" May was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.
		Bronson Alcott was well known for his controversial teaching methods which relied more on student involvement and a belief that children should enjoy learning.
		Yet sorrow was not to last long in the Alcott family as May announced her marriage to a wealthy European in 1878.
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	Bronson Alcott on Amusement
		He was the father of Louisa May Alcott, and when she wrote of education and schools in her novels, the reader may think about Mr.
		A note from Bronson Alcott from the same source as at left: "Kinder Garten: For little children, a ray of sunshine has fallen on their path from the kind soul of Froebel, in his carefully devised system of Recreation and Gifts for them.
		Elizabeth Peabody, Alcott's assistant, was deeply devoted to the educational theories and practices of Friedrich Froebel, the German founder of the Kindergarten system.
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	IHAS: Poet
		Amos Bronson Alcott was born in 1799 in Wolcott, CT, and though he was largely self-taught, he went on to become one of America's most influential educational reformers.
		It was here that Elizabeth Sewall Alcott died of scarlet fever and Bronson Alcott was appointed, largely through Emerson's good offices, to the honorary position of superintendent of the Concord Schools (it paid $100 annually).
		For the remainder of their lives Bronson and Abigail lived primarily in Concord, where Bronson published his book, CONCORD DAYS in 1872, mourned the passing of his wife in 1877, and at eighty years of age in 1879 established the Concord School of Philosophy as an adult summer intellectual retreat.
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	alcotbio.html
		Amos Bronson Alcott was a man of many talents and professions, including, but not limited to, educator, philosopher, conversationalist and poet.
		Alcott certainly had the ideals and the drive to do great things, but there must have been something lacking (perhaps knowledge, as Emerson inferred) because despite his capabilities, his dreams when placed into the medium of reality, dissolved rather quickly; only in his mind could they maintain substance.
		Alcott, in his Orphic Sayings, took many complex abstract ideas and wrote of them directly in short passages of flowing transcendental language seeking to "attempt in a few sentences to reach an intensity of speech that would go directly to the heart of his hearers." (Stoehr, 33) These passages tell the reader what to think.
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	Amos Bronson Alcott
		Amos Bronson Alcott (29 November 1799-4 March 1888), educator and philosopher, was born at Spindle Hill, Connecticut.
		Alcott taught various schools in Connecticut until 1828, when he was invited by the Boston Infant School Society to take charge of their classroom.
		But Alcott's honest attempts to inform others of his teaching methods, as described in Peabody's Record of a School (1835) and his own Conversations with Children on the Gospels (1836-1837), were attacked by press and public alike.
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	AllRefer.com - Bronson Alcott (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bronson Alcott (Amos Bronson Alcott)[Ol´kut, al–, –kot] Pronunciation Key, 1799–1888, American advocate of educational and social reform, b.
		His disappointment was lessened when he learned of the success of Alcott House, a school founded by his disciples in England.
		Poverty continually plagued the life of the Alcotts until the writings of his daughter, Louisa May Alcott, relieved the family of financial worry.
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	Amos Bronson Alcott
		ALCOTT, Amos Bronson educator, born in Wolcott, Connecticut, 29 November 1799.
		Alcott's School," by E. Peabody, was published in Boston in 1834 (3d ed., revised, 1874).
		Alcott has all through his life attached great importance to diet and government of the body, and still more to race and complexion.
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	Amos Bronson Alcott Biography / Biography of Amos Bronson Alcott Main Biography
		Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the most brilliant and visionary American educator of his time, was also the most extreme of the New England transcendentalists.
		Bronson Alcott was born near Wolcott, Conn., on Nov. 29, 1799.
		Alcott felt that the basic impulses in the human being were noble ones and that education should consist in freein.....
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	American Poetry Full-Text Database: Bibliography
		Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799-1888 [1878], [Eumenides, in] A masque of poets.
		Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799-1888 [1882], [Carmen auguratum auspicans, in] The poets' tributes to Garfield: a collection of many memorial poems: With Portrait and Biography (Cambridge: Published by Moses King, 1882) [AlcottA,CarmenA].
		Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799-1888 [1888], Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Seer: an estimate of his character and genius In Prose and Verse by A. Bronson Alcott (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, [1888]) [AlcottA,RalphWE].
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