Alcott family letters to Alfred Whitman, 1858-1891.

Pratt, John Bridge, 1833-1870

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John Bridge Pratt was the husband of Anna Bronson Alcott and brother-in-law of Louisa May Alcott. In 1858, the year the Alcotts moved to Orchard House in Concord, Louisa and Anna helped form the Concord Dramatic Union. Another member of the group was John Bridge Pratt. He and Anna fell in love while playing opposite each other in a play called "The Loan of a Lover." The couple announced their engagement in spring 1858 and married at Orchard House in May 1860. Their wedding provided the bas...

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Whitman, Alfred, 1842-1907

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Alfred Whitman was born in Cambridge, Mass., October 8, 1842, the son of Edmund Burke Whitman and Nancy Russell. He was educated in his native town and in Concord, Massaschusetts at the Sanborn School. While in Concord, he became friends with Louisa May Alcott, who modeled the character "Laurie" in part on Whitman and also Ladislas Wisniewski. Alcott and Whitman maintained a correspondence long after Alfred left Concord. He moved to Kansas in 1858, the family settling on a farm in Douglas Cou...

Nieriker, Abigail May Alcott, 1840-1879

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Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy (an anagram of May) in her sister's semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868). She was named after her mother, Abigail May, and first called Abba, then Abby, and finally May, which she asked to be called in November 1863 when in her twenties. Abigail May Alcott was born July 26, 1840, in Concord, Massachusetts, the y...

Pratt, Anna Bronson Alcott, 1831-1893

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Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (March 16, 1831 – July 17, 1893) was the elder sister of American novelist Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Margaret "Meg" of Little Women (1868), her sister's classic, semi-autobiographical novel. Anna Bronson Alcott was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia on March 16, 1831. She was the first of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abby May. She was named after both her paternal grandmother (Anna) and her father (Brons...

Alcott family (Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888)

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Part of the family papers of the Alcott family of Concord (Mass.). Parents were Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the New England transcendentalist, and Abigail [Abba] May Alcott (1800-1877). Their four daughters were: Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (1831-1893) [who married John Bridge Pratt (1833-1870)], the writer Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), Elizabeth Sewall [Lizzie] Alcott (1835-1858), and Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (1840-1879), an American artist [who married Ernest Nieriker (1856-1935)]. Chil...

Pratt, Anna M.

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