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.

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.

Alcott was one of several who attempted to storm the courthouse ; when gunshots were heard, he was the only one who stood his ground, though the effort was unsuccessful.

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.

However, in that decade, progressive reformers such as Alcott, influenced by Pestalozzi as well as Friedrich Fröbel and Johann Friedrich Herbart, began to advocate writing about subjects from students ' personal experiences.

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

Persuaded in part by Lane's abolitionist views, Alcott took a stand against the John Tyler administration's plan to annex Texas as a slave territory and refused to pay his poll tax.

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 ".

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

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.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

* Bronson Alcott: A glimpse at our vegetarian heritage, by Karen Iacobbo

This path was taken by some Transcendentalist educators, such as Amos Bronson Alcott.

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.

* Work: A Story of Experience, a 1873 novel by Louisa May Alcott

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

Boston alone saw at least a dozen productions, including a juvenile version described by Louisa May Alcott in her 1879 story, " Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore ".

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott ( 1832 – 1888 ).

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.

Alcott continued to struggle financially for most of his life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the most memorable jumps was in 1991 after Alcott won for the third time and made the jump with then tournament host Dinah Shore.

She had outlasted most of her contemporaries such as King, Patty Sheehan and Amy Alcott, remaining competitive on the LPGA Tour.