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In July 2007, Alcott accepted the position as girls ' golf coach at Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California.
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After the death of his wife Abby May on November 25, 1877, Alcott never returned to Orchard House, too heartbroken to live there.
His attitudes towards Alcott's sometimes wild and independent behavior, and his inability to provide for his family, sometimes created conflict between Bronson Alcott and his wife and daughters.
Alcott and set
Around this time, the Alcott family set up a sort of domestic post office to curb potential domestic tension.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
* Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, set in 1863 during the American Civil War.
The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts.
Utilizing a variety of bulbs with different wattages, and controlling them with the external dimmers, Alcott could light the set in a very fast, efficient manner.
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As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment.
Based on his ideas for human perfection, Alcott founded Fruitlands, a transcendentalist experiment in community living.
Alcott is often criticized for his inability to earn a living and support his family ; he often relied on loans from his brother-in-law, Emerson, and others.
A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.
Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.
Bronson Alcott later reflected on his childhood at Spindle Hill: " It kept me pure ...
It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.
Louisa May Alcott was born on her father's birthday, November 29, 1832, at a half hour past midnight.
Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.
While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.
With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.
The two men were leaders of Alcott House, an experimental school based on Alcott's methods from the Temple School located about ten miles outside of London.
Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.
Lane and Alcott collaborated on a major expansion of their educational theories into a Utopian society.
In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).
There, next door to Peabody's book store on West Street, Bronson Alcott hosted a series based on the " Conversations " model by Margaret Fuller called " A Course on the Conversations on Man — his History, Resources, and Expectations ".
Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, likely from an illness he caught from Alcott two years earlier.
Alcott believed that early education must draw out " unpremeditated thoughts and feelings of the child " and emphasized that infancy should primarily focus on enjoyment.
* Alcott biography on American Transcendentalism Web
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( Abigail ) May Alcott Nieriker ( July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879 ) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott.
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Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.
Born in Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling before attempting a career as a traveling salesman.
Alcott became friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and became a major figure in transcendentalism.
Alcott continued to struggle financially for most of his life.
Alcott married Abby May in 1830 and they eventually had four surviving children, all daughters.
Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.
The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.
At age 17, Alcott passed the exam for a teaching certificate but had trouble finding work as a teacher.
In March 1823, Alcott wrote to his brother: " Peddling is a hard place to serve God, but a capital one to serve Mammon.
By the summer of 1823, Alcott returned to Connecticut in debt to his father, who bailed him out after his last two unsuccessful sales trips.
Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.
On November 6, 1827, Alcott started teaching in Bristol, Connecticut, still using the same methods he used in Cheshire, but opposition from the community surfaced quickly ; he was unemployed by March 1828.
Around this time, Alcott also first expressed his public disdain for slavery.
Alcott and Russell were initially concerned that the area would not be conducive to their progressive approach to education and considered establishing the school in nearby Philadelphia instead.
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