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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Author : John Matteson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393077578
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father written by John Matteson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.

Marmee & Louisa

Author : Eve LaPlante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451620675
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Marmee & Louisa written by Eve LaPlante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2012.

Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott

Author : Liz Rosenberg
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536222402
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott written by Liz Rosenberg and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful, exciting, and deeply moving, Liz Rosenberg’s distinctive portrait of the author of Little Women reveals some of her life’s more complex and daring aspects. Moody and restless, teenage Louisa longed for freedom. Faced with the expectations of her loving but hapless family, the Alcotts, and of nineteenth-century New England society, Louisa struggled to find her place. On long meandering runs through the woods behind Orchard House, she thought about a future where she could write and think and dream. Undaunted by periods of abject poverty and enriched by friendships with some of the greatest minds of her time and place, she was determined to have this future, no matter the cost. Drawing on the surviving journals and letters of Louisa and her family and friends, author and poet Liz Rosenberg reunites Louisa May Alcott with her most ardent readers. In this warm and sometimes heartbreaking biography, Rosenberg delves deep into the oftentimes secretive life of a woman who was ahead of her time, imbued with social conscience, and always moving toward her future with a determination that would bring her fame, tragedy, and the realization of her biggest dreams.

The Alcotts as I Knew Them

Author : Clara Gowing
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342544462
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Alcotts as I Knew Them written by Clara Gowing and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

American Bloomsbury

Author : Susan Cheever
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743264622
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book American Bloomsbury written by Susan Cheever and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.

The Alcotts

Author : Madelon Bedell
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Alcotts written by Madelon Bedell and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the nineteenth-century philosopher and educator Amos Alcott, his wife; and their four daughters who were the real-life prototypes for the Marches in "Little Women."

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott

Author : Jessie Bonstelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott written by Jessie Bonstelle and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mr. Emerson's Wife

Author : Amy Belding Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466809280
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Emerson's Wife written by Amy Belding Brown and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her family's reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship while maintaining her moral authority and inner strength. In the course of the book, she deals with overwhelming social demands, faces devastating personal loss, and discovers the deepest meaning of love. Lidian eventually encounters the truth of her own character and learns that even our faults can lead us to independence.

Convers with Children on the Gospels V2

Author : Amos Alcott
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429019352
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Convers with Children on the Gospels V2 written by Amos Alcott and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

My Heart is Boundless

Author : Abba May Alcott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476702802
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book My Heart is Boundless written by Abba May Alcott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descendant of Louisa May Alcott shares personal letters, recipes and journal entries by the famous writer's mother, Abigail, to demonstrate the inspiration she had on her daughters and on the creation of Little Women's famous character, Marmee.

Fruitlands

Author : Richard Francis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169442
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Fruitlands written by Richard Francis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten year old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals. Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict, particularly between Lane and Alcott's wife, Abigail, made the community unsustainable. Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, the author explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day to day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history.

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515426486
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perfectly Miserable

Author : Sarah Payne Stuart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594633908
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Perfectly Miserable written by Sarah Payne Stuart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture—class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate—through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too-perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn their approval and enter their ranks, she hurled herself into upper-crust domesticity full throttle. In the twenty years Stuart spent back in her hometown—in a series of ever more magnificent houses in ever grander neighborhoods—she was forced to connect with the cultural tradition of guilt and flawed parenting of a long legacy of local, literary women from Emerson’s wife, to Hawthorne’s, to the most famous and imposing of them all, Louisa May Alcott’s iconic, guilt-tripping Marmee. When Stuart’s own mother dies, she realizes that there is no one left to approve or disapprove. And so, with her suddenly grown children fleeing as she herself once did, Stuart leaves her hometown for the final time, bidding good-bye to the cozy ideals invented for her by Louisa May Alcott so many years ago, which may or may not ever have been based in reality.

The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott

Author : Amos Bronson Alcott
Publisher : Iowa State Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott written by Amos Bronson Alcott and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters, are chiefly from the Alcott-Pratt collection of the Harvard College Library.

Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog

Author : Lisa Scottoline
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312649432
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog written by Lisa Scottoline and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one's for you, extraordinary ordinary women everywhere It's time for seriously hilarious girl-talk with New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline. She's shared this collection of scenes from her real life, and she bets her life sounds a lot like yours . . . if you crave carbs, can't find jeans that fit, and still believe that these two things are unrelated. Pick up this book--you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll swear off pantyhose. Here are some examples of Lisa's wit and wisdom: "Everybody has their pornography, and mine is the real estate ads." "We'll get universal health care before we get beauty salons open on Mondays, and that's backwards. Ask any woman if she'd rather have a haircut or a mammogram, and you'll see what I mean." "Mothers are a natural force, and maybe an alternative source of fuel." "Lately there's been talk about a religion that allows polygamy, so that a man can have as many wives as he pleases. Where is the religion that allows a woman to have as many husbands as she pleases?" "I have never been in an accident, if you don't count my two marriages." "My mother taught us that if you eat baked beans from a can that has dents, you'll die of botulism. This was before people injected botulism into their faces. Nowadays, the dented can will kill you, but you'll look young." Inspired by her wildly popular column in The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "Chick Wit," Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog is a book you'll have to put down--just to stop laughing.

Of Beards and Men

Author : Christopher Oldstone-Moore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628414X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Of Beards and Men written by Christopher Oldstone-Moore and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beards—they’re all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today some New Yorkers pay thousands of dollars for facial hair transplants to disguise patchy, juvenile beards. And in 2014, blogger Nicki Daniels excoriated bearded hipsters for turning a symbol of manliness and power into a flimsy fashion statement. The beard, she said, has turned into the padded bra of masculinity. Of Beards and Men makes the case that today’s bearded renaissance is part of a centuries-long cycle in which facial hairstyles have varied in response to changing ideals of masculinity. Christopher Oldstone-Moore explains that the clean-shaven face has been the default style throughout Western history—see Alexander the Great’s beardless face, for example, as the Greek heroic ideal. But the primacy of razors has been challenged over the years by four great bearded movements, beginning with Hadrian in the second century and stretching to today’s bristled resurgence. The clean-shaven face today, Oldstone-Moore says, has come to signify a virtuous and sociable man, whereas the beard marks someone as self-reliant and unconventional. History, then, has established specific meanings for facial hair, which both inspire and constrain a man’s choices in how he presents himself to the world. This fascinating and erudite history of facial hair cracks the masculine hair code, shedding light on the choices men make as they shape the hair on their faces. Oldstone-Moore adeptly lays to rest common misperceptions about beards and vividly illustrates the connection between grooming, identity, culture, and masculinity. To a surprising degree, we find, the history of men is written on their faces.

The Book That Changed America

Author : Randall Fuller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143130099
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Book That Changed America written by Randall Fuller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race “A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs. Randall Fuller takes us back to one of those turning points, in 1860, with the story of the influence of Charles Darwin’s just-published On the Origin of Species on five American intellectuals, including Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, the child welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace, and the abolitionist Franklin Sanborn. Each of these figures seized on the book’s assertion of a common ancestry for all creatures as a powerful argument against slavery, one that helped provide scientific credibility to the cause of abolition. Darwin’s depiction of constant struggle and endless competition described America on the brink of civil war. But some had difficulty aligning the new theory to their religious convictions and their faith in a higher power. Thoreau, perhaps the most profoundly affected all, absorbed Darwin’s views into his mysterious final work on species migration and the interconnectedness of all living things. Creating a rich tableau of nineteenth-century American intellectual culture, as well as providing a fascinating biography of perhaps the single most important idea of that time, The Book That Changed America is also an account of issues and concerns still with us today, including racism and the enduring conflict between science and religion.