The controversy had caused many parents to remove their children and, as the school closed, Alcott became increasingly financially desperate.

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

Alcott “ made women ’ s rights integral to her stories, and above all to Little Women .” Alcott ’ s fiction became her “ most important feminist contribution ”— even considering all the effort Alcott made to help facilitate women ’ s rights.

In the 1830s, Parker began attending meetings of the Transcendental Club and became associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, and several others.

Among his many admirers and friends were Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and President Andrew Johnson.

As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment.

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.

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.

Alcott persuaded them to come to the United States with him ; Lane and his son moved into the Alcott house and helped with family chores.

In July, Alcott announced their plans in The Dial: " We have made an arrangement with the proprieter of an estate of about a hundred acres, which liberates this tract from human ownership ".

The members of the Alcott family were not happy with their Fruitlands experience.

Alcott served as a pallbearer along with Louis Agassiz, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

In 1868, Alcott met with publisher Thomas Niles, an admirer of Hospital Sketches.

It has continued functioning with a Summer Conversational Series in its original building at Orchard House, now run by the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association.

Writer James Russell Lowell referred to Alcott in his poem " Studies for Two Heads " as " an angel with clipped wings ".

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.

In 1840, after several setbacks with the school, the Alcott family moved to a cottage on of land, situated along the Sudbury River in Concord, Massachusetts.

Alcott followed Little Women with two sequels, also featuring the March sisters: Little Men ( 1871 ) and Jo's Boys ( 1886 ).

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

" Gregory S. Jackson argued that Alcott's use of realism belongs to the American Protestant pedagogical tradition that includes a range of religious literary traditions with which Alcott was familiar.

This division signaled a beginning of polarization of gender roles social constructs “ as class stratification increased .” Joy Kasson wrote that “ Alcott chronicled the coming of age of young girls, their struggles with issues such as selfishness and generosity, the nature of individual integrity, and, above all, the question of their place in the world around them .” Girls were able to relate to the March sisters in Little Women along with following the lead of their heroines by assimilating aspects of the story into their own lives.

" Alcott thought that “ a democratic household could evolve into a feminist society .” In Little Women, she imagined that just such an evolution might begin with Plumfield, a nineteenth century feminist utopia .”

Living in a mansion, waited on by servants, and flaunting her wealth with fashion, she's the undisputed queen of Bronson Alcott High School.

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's facial hair " will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity.

In 1867, French moved with his family to Concord, Massachusetts, where he was a neighbor and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Alcott family.

The major figures in the movement were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Margaret Fuller, and Amos Bronson Alcott.

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau ; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work.

In the 19th century, the Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ; the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau ; the founders of progressive education, John Dewey and Francis Parker ; and educational pioneers, such as Friedrich Fröbel, Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner ( founder of the Waldorf schools ); among others, all insisted that education should be understood as the art of cultivating the moral, emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the developing child.

Suggested prototypes for Hollingsworth include Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Mann, while the narrator is often supposed to be none other than Hawthorne himself.

His philosophy is clearly influenced by his family's Congregationalism, by Enlightenment humanism, by Hegel's dialectical philosophy of history, and by the philosophers of Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott.

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau ; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work.

Because of her family ’ s prominence in Boston society, Perry had access from an early age to such literary greats as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and James Russell Lowell.

In American editions they were read by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and G. R. S. Mead, secretary to Mme Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy.

After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Fields served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edwin Percy Whipple.

After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Whipple served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

At the time it was published, Harding was acknowledged as a " brave new voice " by Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The primary examples are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott among others from Concord, Massachusetts.

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.

In late April 1840 Alcott moved to the town of Concord urged by Emerson.

Emerson wrote a eulogy, and Alcott helped plan the preparations.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

Emerson took a paternal and at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to a circle of local writers and thinkers, including Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian Hawthorne, who was a boy at the time.

In his early years he followed Transcendentalism, a loose and eclectic idealist philosophy advocated by Emerson, Fuller, and Alcott.

The elementary schools are Emerson ( a magnet school that opened in 1896 as the Vine Street School ), Central College ( magnet ), Hanby ( magnet ), Longfellow ( magnet ), Alcott, Annehurst, Cherrington, Fouse, Hawthorne, Huber Ridge, Mark Twain, McVay, Pointview, Robert Frost, Whittier, Wilder and Coutny.

He held most of the leading writers of his day in low regard, with the possible exception of Walt Whitman, though he met and cultivated many of them, including Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and William Makepeace Thackeray.

Perry recalled having the opportunity to play the game “ fox and geese ” with both Emerson and Alcott.