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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Alcott had high expectations but was often away when the community most needed him as he attempted to recruit more members.

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.

In March 1853, Alcott was invited to teach fifteen students at Harvard Divinity School in an extracurricular, non-credit course.

In 1860, Alcott was named superintendent of Concord Schools.

" Alcott was an abolitionist and a friend of the more radical William Lloyd Garrison.

In March 1823, Alcott wrote to his brother: " Peddling is a hard place to serve God, but a capital one to serve Mammon.

" Alcott delivered the manuscript for the second part on New Year's Day 1869, only three months after publication of part one.

G. K. Chesterton noted that in Little Women, Alcott " anticipated realism by twenty or thirty years ," and that Fritz's proposal to Jo, and her acceptance, " is one of the really human things in human literature.

This was evident after the publication of part one of Little Women when girls wrote Alcott asking her “ who the little women marry .” The unresolved ending added to the popularity of Little Women.

Ruth MacDonald argued that “ Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls ’ novel and the family story .” In the 1860s, gendered separation of children ’ s fiction was a newer division in literature.

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.

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 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.

At the time, the LPGA Hall of Fame required at least 30 career wins for entry, and Alcott chased for the 30th win in vain over the next several years.

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.

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.

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.

Meg is the complacent daughter who did not “ attain Alcott ’ s ideal womanhood ” of equality.

In the years following the book's publication, responses to the tale were published by W. M. Swepstone ( Christmas Shadows, 1850 ), Horatio Alger ( Job Warner's Christmas, 1863 ), Louisa May Alcott ( A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882 ), and others who followed Scrooge's life as a reformed man – or some who thought Dickens had gotten it wrong and needed to be corrected.

It was invented by Bronson Alcott, who wanted his students to have active physical play and time to talk.

Alcott, who is Jewish, is also a member of the National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame.

She uses the transmitted power of the Keller Machine in her plans against the American delegate, Senator Alcott, who barely survives her attack.

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 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.

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.

As Alcott had published earlier, " Our wine is water, — flesh, bread ; — drugs, fruits.

Alcott asked Niles if he would publish a book of short stories by his daughter ; instead, he suggested she write a book about girls.

She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abigail May Alcott and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest ; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest.

“ Alcott particularly battled the conventional marriage plot in writing Little Women ” Alcott did not have Jo accept Laurie ’ s hand in marriage ; rather, when she finally had Jo get married, she picked an unconventional man for Jo ’ s husband.

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

* Amy Alcott – Girls ' Jr-1973 ; Women's Open-1980

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.

Other famous spinsters include Susan B. Anthony, Ann Coulter, Florence King, Condoleezza Rice, Maureen Dowd, Holly Hallstrom, Lizzie Borden, Emily Dickinson, Florence Nightingale, Queen Elizabeth I, actresses Frances Bavier, Ann B. Davis, Diane Keaton, Lillian Gish, Greta Garbo, and Amy Sedaris ; and novelists Harper Lee, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, and Jane Austen.

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

American novelist Louisa May Alcott referred to a rocking chair in this passage from her novel Little Women ; " I shall lie abed late, and do nothing ," replied Meg, from the depths of the rocking chair.

* Fruitlands ( transcendental center ), American historic landmark ; short-lived Massachusetts utopian community founded in June 1843 by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane

As a child, Levine read avidly ; her favorite book was James M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and she also enjoyed the works of Louisa May Alcott and L. M. Montgomery.