Louisa May Alcott

Her father was Bronson Alcott, a member of the Transcendentalist movement whose best-known adherent may have been Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alcott was also an educator who implemented his ideas about education at several schools, such as the Temple School at Boston that he founded in 1834. Later, he was school superintendent at Concord and elsewhere. In his educational structure, he tried to create the harmonious development of the physical, intellectual, aesthetic, and moral natures of the individual, and he placed a stress on the imagination. His favored method was conversational instruction, and he introduced such innovations as gymnastics, organized play, and the honor system. He called his personal philosophy Personalism, but he was in addition an extreme Transcendentalist, though he was opposed to its doctrine of individualism and instead believed that all seemingly separate minds are in fact linked to a central Mind.

Alcottsaw words as the means to disclose the spiritual content of nature, and the imagination had as its primary activity the formation of language out of nature. Thro

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home for most of these stories so Louisa could provide the family with a relatively steady source of income. The need for more material became an obsession: "Wherever she went, whatever she did, she was pursued now by the compulsion of finding material for stories." Louisa undertook what she called her domestic novel, Little Women uncertain throughout the process of writing and publishing whether this book would be well-received or not. There is much of her family in this book, but Bronson Alcott is largely absent: It is ironic that Bronson Alcott, whom Louisa could so little understand that he barely appears in Little Women, should have set the terms for the book. It was the father who wanted his girls to be "little women." It was her father who wanted Louisa to write what became her most popular book. It was also her father who never liked Louisa, who found her too aggressive, willful, and fierce for his definition of feminine. Little Women is the story of a family. The father is absent for half of the book, though he has helped shape the character of his daughters and remains a presence to which they refer. The way the novel is structured, the girls live in a world in which they experience a number of disappoi
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