Alcott himself worried about his own prospects as a young man, once writing to his mother that he was " still at my old trade — hoping.

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.

Some critics detected echoes of George Gissing and Arnold Bennett in Swinnerton's work, but he himself thought his chief influences were Henry James, Henrik Ibsen and Louisa May Alcott.

" On April 10, 1833, the family moved to Philadelphia, where Alcott ran a day school.

Alcott was rejected by most public opinion and, by the summer of 1837, he had only 11 students left and no assistant after Margaret Fuller moved to Providence, Rhode Island.

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

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 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 ).

The Alcott family put The Hillside up for rent and moved to Boston.

Alcott and his family moved back to Concord after 1857, where he and his family lived in the Orchard House until 1877.

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.

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.

During the nine months in 1775-1776 when Harvard moved to Concord, Massachusetts, Winthrop occupied the house which was later to become famous as The Wayside, home to Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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.

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.

Alcott believed that early education must draw out " unpremeditated thoughts and feelings of the child " and emphasized that infancy should primarily focus on enjoyment.

* In the 1995 comedy film Clueless a Persian student at the fictionalized Bronson Alcott High School curses out a teacher in Persian and a later scene where the protagonist explicitly describes the " Persian Mafia ":

He wrote, " Let him mend his pen, get a bottle of visible ink, come out from the Old Manse, cut Mr. Alcott, hang ( if possible ), the editor of ' The Dial ,' and throw out of the window to the pigs all his odd numbers of the North American Review.

With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.

In 1860, Alcott was named superintendent of Concord Schools.

At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

With Hawthorne's death, Alcott worried that few of the Concord notables remained.

After visiting him, Alcott wrote, " Concord will be shorn of its human splendor when he withdraws behind the cloud.

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.

The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts.

May later taught an early form of art therapy at an asylum in Syracuse, New York, then returned home in 1862 to begin teaching art at the Concord school run by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, a friend of Amos Bronson Alcott.

File: The Wayside Concord Massachusetts. jpg | The Wayside, home in turn to authors Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Sidney

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

Based on his ideas for human perfection, Alcott founded Fruitlands, a transcendentalist experiment in community living.

Alcott continued to struggle financially for most of his life.

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.

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.

Around this time, Alcott also first expressed his public disdain for slavery.

" Alcott began to believe Boston was the best place for his ideas to flourish.

Alcott preferred the term " Symposium " for their group.

The school's founder, James Pierpont Greaves, had only recently died but Alcott was invited to stay there for a week.

Alcott, however, was still in debt and could not purchase the land needed for their planned community.

Lane believed Alcott had misled him into thinking enough people would join the enterprise and developed a strong dislike for the nuclear family.

After Lane's departure, Alcott fell into a depression and could not speak or eat for three days.

Alcott voted in a presidential election for the first time in 1860.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

At times, Alcott offered his own hand for an offending student to strike, saying that any failing was the teacher's responsibility.

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

Modern critics often fault Alcott for not being able to financially support his family.

* Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, lived and worked for seven weeks during 1851 as a domestic helper in Dedham

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 wrote Little Women “ in record time for money .” Since Alcott never married and wrote that she was “ often lonely and in ill health ,” some people questioned how she was able to write so beautifully and reflectively about " American home life .”

The crucial first point is that the choice is hers, its quirkiness another sign of her much-prized individuality .” “ Bhaer has all the qualities Bronson Alcott lacked: warmth, intimacy, and a tender capacity for expressing his affection — the feminine attributes Alcott admired and hoped men could acquire in a rational, feminist world .”