61. Louisa May Alcott: Eight Cousins: List Of Contents - Free Online Library Read about Rosie Campbell, who becomes an orphan after her father s death and is sent to live with her six aunts and seven cousins (all boys). http://alcott.thefreelibrary.com/Eight-Cousins

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62. Alcotts And Orchard House A virtual tour of Orchard House, Alcott s childhood home and the place where she is believed to have written Little Women. http://www.louisamayalcott.org/alcottorchard.html

Tour the rooms of Orchard House Amos Bronson Alcott originally purchased two houses set upon twelve acres of land on the Lexington Road in 1857 both dating to circa 1690-1720 for $945. He then moved the smaller tenant farmhouse and joined it to the rear of the larger manor house, making many improvements to the home, as explained in his journals of 1857-58. The grounds also contained an orchard of forty apple trees, which greatly appealed to Mr. Alcott, who considered apples the most perfect food. It is not surprising, then, that he should name his home "Orchard House." After moving twenty-two times in nearly thirty years, the Alcotts finally found their most permanent home at Orchard House, where they lived from 1858 to 1877. The house is most noted for being where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her beloved classic, Little Women , in 1868 at a "shelf desk" her father built especially for her. Fortunately, there have been no major structural changes to the house since the Alcotts' time, and on-going preservation efforts adhere to the highest standards of authenticity. Since approximately 80% of the furnishings on display were owned by the Alcotts, the rooms look very much as they did when the family lived here, causing many modern-day visitors to comment that, "A visit to Orchard House is like a walk through

63. Alcott, Louisa May: The Oxford Companion To Fairy Tales Alcott, Louisa May (1832–88), American writer of fantasy tales, best known for her classic novel Little Women (1868). Alcott, whose father was friends with Henry David http://www.enotes.com/ocft-encyclopedia/alcott-louisa-may

64. Louisa May Alcott, Domestic Goddess Examines Alcott s Little Women in light of the author s own life. Includes detailed look at Alcott s upbringing. http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/lma.htm

Critical Theory Bibliography Links Domestic Goddesses Home Check out the new photo-essay on Louisa May Alcott's home in Concord Urgent News for Louisa May Alcott lovers: Orchard House, Louisa May Alcott's girlhood home, is being destroyed by powder post beetles click here to go to a "donation for money to fix it" page Domestic Goddess Louisa May Alcott is perhaps most famous for writing Little Women , (1868) a novel which is partially autobiographical and has shaped the way many women since the Victorian era have defined womanhood, family, and girlhood. Since the early 1970's, the public has known about the stories that Alcott published under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard. These gothic "potboilers" are filled with delightfully feminist femmes fatales, intrigue, and dare-we-say-it, smut (at least by Victorian standards). Read more about this author, who was more versatile than many of us knew. Born in 1832 in to Bronson (a noted Transcendentalist who was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, among others) and Abba Alcott (daughter of Colonel Joseph May and a vocal proponent for women's rights and abolition), Louisa May Alcott constantly struggled with the anger and individualistic spirit that came naturally to her. Bronson Alcott's belief that children were tabulae rasae femmes fatales As a Transcendental and a Victorian, Bronson tended to see his duty as a parent in the same light as reformers of the time, who stressed their belief that heredity and parenting were "the means to create new generations" and that one must encourage "having all that is great, and noble, and good in man, all that is pure, and virtuous, and beautiful, and angelic in woman" (William Alcott, qtd. in Russett 199). The Victorian understanding of child-rearing included the idea that "parents, ensuring their own physical and mental health by right living, could pass this health on to their offspring" (Russett 199). Bronson firmly embraced the ideas that as a parent, he could make the world a better place by molding his daughters to imitate his own perfection. His attempts to make Louisa more like himself caused a great deal of inner conflict for her.

65. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott: About The Author Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail Abba May was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/alcott/aboutla.html

About the Author Unable to guarantee his family a steady income, Bronson moved the Alcotts back to Boston in 1849. At this point, Louisa began to feel more and more responsible for her family's financial needs and started taking on as many jobs as a young girl could find. She began reading for an elderly father and his invalid sister, but this eventually turned sour when Louisa received next to nothing for her work. At the same time, Louisa and her sister Anna took to teaching small children and mended and washed laundry in an effort to help provide for the growing Alcott family. In 1852 Louisa's first poem, "Sunlight" was published in Peterson's magazine under the pseudonym, Flora Fairfield. Although modest payment was received, Louisa was beginning a career that would bring her great fame and end her financial worries. Three years later, in 1855, her first book, Flower Fables was published. At this point, the Alcott family moved to Walpole, New Hampshire but Louisa stayed on in Boston to further her literary career. Tragedy struck the family in 1856 when the third daughter, Lizzie, contracted scarlet fever. Lizzie would recover for the time being but her illness forced the Alcott's back to Concord where Emerson purchased Orchard House for the family. Lizzie's sickness returned and she passed away on March 14. Yet happiness was soon to follow as Anna, the oldest announced that she was to be married. Anna's wedding and Lizzie's death forced Louisa to return to Concord house in 1857. She wished to help comfort her mother during this time and try to help alleviate the lose of two daughters.

66. Susan Laird / TEACHING IN A DIFFERENT SENSE: ALCOTT'S MARMEE Academic essay by Susan Laird explores education and child-rearing in Alcott s Little Women. http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/93_docs/LAIRD.HTM

Select - HOME 1992 Contents 1993 Contents 1994 Contents 1995 Contents 1996 Contents 1997 Contents 1998 Contents 1999 Contents 2000 Contents 2001 Contents 2002 Contents 2003 Contents Author Index PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1993 TEACHING IN A DIFFERENT SENSE: Susan Laird University of Oklahoma Little Women GW LW LW LW LW LW LW But Marmee obviously also aims for their learning LW LW teaching BRINGING MARMEE INTO EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT However anomalous our field may make my claim that Marmee teaches her daughters, the claim does have noteworthy precedents in educational thought. In Reclaiming a Conversation books and academic journals in our field have not addressed such non-standard, but common-sense teaching claims either critically or constructively. She read Pestalozzi, and her husband, the Transcendentalist Bronson Alcott, wrote about Pestalozzi, even considering himself a disciple of that now almost forgotten philosopher of education. Bronson also wrote ponderous treatises idealizing Socrates and Jesus as teachers, and worked with Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller on an experimental effort at inter-racial co-education for children in Boston. More than just a source of evidence that maternal thought exists

67. What's New Alcott briefly served as a nurse during the Civil War. These three brief 'sketches' recount her experiences, though she gives herself a pseudonym and presumably embellishes http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=289

68. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) - Find A Grave Memorial Pictures, location, and directions to the place where she is buried with biographical information, photograph, and interactive visitor comments. From Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14

69. Alcott, Louisa May Classic Online • US mirror of Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May. Louisa May Alcott (18321888) is widely known as author of Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and http://www.classic-library.org.ua/alcott-louisa-may/

Classic Online US mirror of Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is widely known as author of Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and until the late twentieth century her literary reputation largely rested on this work. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania to the transcendental philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May, Louisa grew up in Concord, Massachusetts with her three sisters. The family often experienced severe poverty and Louisa's income became pivotal to the family survival. She worked as a nurse, seamstress and domestic servant until the publication of her first book Flower Fables in 1855 which netted the author thirty-two dollars. With the publication of Little Women in 1868 Alcott achieved critical and financial success. The characters of the novel were drawn from those of Alcott's sisters, and many of its episodes from those she and her family had experienced. Alcott's masterpiece was followed by a succession of wholesome domestic narratives, the so-called Little Women series. Since Alcott's death her reputation has been reappraised as a result of the discovery of a large number of sensational "pot-boilers," written in secret and published anonymously or under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. These tales, written prior to the publication of Little Women , earned her between $25 and $100 each from periodical story papers. Beginning in 1975, republication of Alcott's sensation stories spurred interest in her long out-of-print adult novels. The discovery of these stories has led to a recognition of Alcott as a far more complex and prolific writer than was originally thought. As readers become more familiar with her sensation stories, and as Little Women and its offshoots are reread, it is becoming possible to see Alcott as a complex writer deeply engaged with the issue of being a woman in nineteenth-century America. No longer merely the author of Little Women, Alcott has taken her place as one of the foremost American authors of the nineteenth century.

70. An Old-fashioned Girl By Louisa May Alcott. Search, Read, Study, Discuss. Html version of Alcott s novel. http://www.online-literature.com/alcott/old_fashioned_girl/

The Literature Network Authors: 261 Books: 2,949 Forum Members: 71,085 Forum Posts: 863,502 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Subscriber Login addthis_pub = 'ChrisWebPub'; Literature Network Louisa May Alcott An Old-fashioned Girl An Old-fashioned Girl Search all of An Old-fashioned Girl Advanced Search Introductions Forum Discussions Fan of this book? Help us introduce it to others by writing an introduction for it . It's quick and easy, click here Related Links: An Old-Fashioned girl Summary and Author Biography Find essays on An Old-fashioned Girl Quizzes on An Old-fashioned Girl No quizzes available to take yet. Please submit a quiz here Recent Forum Posts on An Old-fashioned Girl One of the best books written by Alcott? So I've read this book once again, and I can't believe how interesting it is! Haven't you learnt things about the Victorian lifestyle after reading this book? It's amazing the number of things you can understand by reading An old-fashioned girl. The characters are very interesting, and Tom Shaw is probably one of the best male characters Alcott has ever portrayed (even when they are usually similar in all her novels), what do you think? Posted By BloomingRose at Sat 19 Dec 2009, 10:50 AM

71. Louisa May Alcott (American Author) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Facts about Alcott, Louisa May, as discussed in Britannica Compton's Encyclopedia Alcott, Louisa May Facts about Alcott, Louisa May, as discussed in Britannica's Elementary http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/13467/Louisa-May-Alcott

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72. Perilous Play The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Collection s etext of Alcott s 1869 short story. http://lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/perilous.html

"Perilous Play" (1869) by Louisa May Alcott "If someone does not propose a new and interesting amusement, I shall die of ennui!" said pretty Belle Daventry, in a tone of despair. "I have read all my books, used up all my Berlin wools, and it's too warm to go to town for more. No one can go sailing yet, as the tide is out; we are all nearly tired to death of cards, croquet, and gossip, so what shall we do to while away this endless afternoon? Dr. Meredith, I command you to invent and propose a new game in five minutes." "To hear is to obey," replied the young man, who lay in the grass at her feet, as he submissively slapped his forehead, and fell a-thinking with all his might. "Time is up now, Doctor," cried Belle, pocketing her watch with a flourish. "Ready to report," answered Meredith, sitting up and producing a little box of tortoiseshell and gold. "How mysterious! What is it? Let me see, first!" And Belle removed the cover, looking like an inquisitive child. "Only bonbons; how stupid! That won't do, sir. We don't want to be fed with sugar-plums. We demand to be amused." "Eat six of these despised bonbons, and you

73. Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Papers: Guide. bMS Am 800.23 Alcott, Louisa May, 18321888. Papers Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00659

Harvard University Library OASIS : Online Archival Search Information System Frames Version Questions or Comments bMS Am 800.23 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Papers: Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Descriptive Summary Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b Call No.: MS Am 800.23 Creator: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Title: Papers, Date(s): Quantity: 5 boxes (2 linear ft.) Abstract: Papers pertaining primarily to the works of American author Louisa May Alcott. Recataloged in part by: Megan K. Friedel, with the assistance of Bonnie B. Salt. Acquisition Information: Purchased with the Sheldon Fund; received: 1939. Processing Information: In March 2001 this collection was recataloged and old item nos. (249) - (250) were resorted, new descriptions written, and additional numbers assigned. At the same time, some correspondence found at the end of the collection was moved to the correspondence series at the start. Historical Note Louisa May Alcott was an American author.

74. Scarlet Stockings E-text of the short story originally published in Putnam s Magazine, July, 1869. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=AlcScar&tag=public&imag

75. Jack And Jill : Alcott , Louisa May : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archi Librivox recording of Jack and Jill Jack and Jill went up a hill To coast with fun and laughter. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came http://www.archive.org/details/jack_jill

76. Bibliomania: Free Online Literature And Study Guides Includes Little Women and Good Wives . http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/alcott/index.html

77. Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May (b. Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S.d. March 6, 1888, Boston), American author known for her children's books, especially Little Women. http://www.uv.es/EBRIT/micro/micro_13_37.html

Britannica CD Index Articles Dictionary Help Alcott, Louisa May (b. Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S.d. March 6, 1888, Boston), American author known for her children's books, especially Little Women Alcott spent most of her life in Boston and Concord, Mass., where she grew up in the company of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott realized early that her transcendentalist father was too impractical to provide for his wife and four daughters; after the failure of Fruitlands, a utopian community that he had founded, Louisa's lifelong concern for the welfare of her family began. She taught briefly, worked as a domestic, and finally began to write, producing potboilers at first, and eventually more serious works. Alcott volunteered as a nurse after the American Civil War began. She contracted typhoid from unsanitary hospital conditions and was sent home. She was never completely well again, but the publication of her letters in book form, Hospital Sketches (1863), brought her the first taste of fame.

78. Louisa May Alcott Biography Pictures Portrait Books Online Forum Includes annotated etexts of Flower Fables and Little Women . http://www.selfknowledge.com/6au.htm

79. Louisa May Alcott - Books, Biography, Quotes - Read Print Read works by Louisa May Alcott for free at Read Print. http://www.readprint.com/author-1/Louisa-May-Alcott-books

80. Flower Fables / By Louisa May Alcott Full, online text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AlcFlow.html

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Flower Fables / by Louisa May Alcott Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library The entire work KB Table of Contents for this work All on-line databases Etext Center Homepage Header ... Story 1 THE FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE. Section Poem Section Poem ... Story 2 EVA'S VISIT TO FAIRY-LAND. Story 3 THE FLOWER'S LESSON. Poem Section Story 4 LILY-BELL AND THISTLEDOWN. Section Poem Section Poem ... Story 5 LITTLE BUD. Story 6 CLOVER-BLOSSOM. Poem Section Story 7 LITTLE ANNIE'S DREAM; OR, THE FAIRY FLOWER. Story 8 RIPPLE, THE WATER-SPIRIT. Story 9 FAIRY SONG. Poem Section

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