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

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau's aunt each wrote that " Thoreau " is pronounced like the word " thorough ".

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 .”

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.

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.

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, also wrote a children's version in her short story " A Hole in the Wall ".

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.

The great authors such as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Edward Eggleston, and Bill Nye wrote letters in the mid 1880s to the Century requesting international copyright.

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

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.

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 ).

Alcott spoke, as opportunity arose, before the " lyceums " then common in various parts of the United States, or addressed groups of hearers as they invited him.

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.

While “ Alcott never questioned the value of domesticity ” she challenged the social constructs that made spinsters obscure and fringe members of society solely because they were not married.

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.

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

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.

Others are Hawthorne, Watson, Alcott, Morton, and Lincoln.

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.

They are the Alcott House, whose house color is purple, the Bell House, whose color is yellow, the Farwell house, whose color is blue, and the Mason house, and its color being red.

Among them are an illustrated biography, Lucile: Her Life by Design by Randy Bigham, and a novel based on her life, The Dressmaker, by Kate Alcott.

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

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

Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 ) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Dodge published work by the country's best writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain and Joel Chandler Harris.

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

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.

I met Henry James the other night at Emerson's, at an Alcottian conversation, at which, however, Alcott did not talk much, being disturbed by James's opposition.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

A cover quotation of the article, " ironically attributed to Louisa May Alcott " stated " Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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.