When using the term “ little women ” Alcott was drawing on Dickensian meaning.

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.

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.

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

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.

Alcott himself moved out of Concord for his final years, settling at 10 Louisburg Square in Boston beginning in 1885.

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 .”

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.

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.

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

Lane and Alcott collaborated on a major expansion of their educational theories into a Utopian society.

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.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

More of their story is found in Alcott ’ s book, “ Little Men .”

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.

This adaptation of Louisa Mary Alcott ’ s novel of the same name was one of the most popular films of the year, and emphasises Armstrong ’ s focus on portraying the intimate lives of strong female characters and their relationships with one another.

Afterwards, almost by accident, he meets and falls in love with Dora Diamond ( Mena Suvari ), a fellow student who is dating their unscrupulous literature professor, Edward Alcott ( Greg Kinnear ).

Alcott stood forward and asked the leader of the group, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, " Why are we not within?

The group at this first meeting of what would become known as the " Transcendental Club " included Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, and Convers Francis as well as Hedge, Emerson, and Ripley.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

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

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 married Abby May in 1830 and they eventually had four surviving children, all daughters.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

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.

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.

Alcott accepted and he and his newly pregnant wife set forth on December 14.

Louisa May Alcott was born on her father's birthday, November 29, 1832, at a half hour past midnight.