Alcott books : books from the libraries of Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott and members of their immediate family, 1824-1887.

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Alcott books : books from the libraries of Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott and members of their immediate family, 1824-1887.

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Biography: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)--Transcendental idealist, philosopher, educator, lecturer, essayist, poet, reformer, and resident of Concord, Mass.--married Abigail May on May 23, 1830. Their children: Anna Bronson (born 1831); Louisa May (author; born 1832); Elizabeth Sewall (born 1835); a son (born and died 1839); and May (artist; born 1840). Anna Bronson Alcott married John Bridge Pratt in 1860. Their children: Frederic Alcott Pratt (born 1863) and John Sewall Pratt (later John Sewall Pratt Alcott; born 1865). Frederic Alcott Pratt married Jessica L. Cate in 1888. Their children: Bronson Alcott Pratt (born 1889); Elizabeth Sewall Pratt (born 1891); Frederic Alcott Pratt (born and died 1895); Louisa Alcott Pratt (born 1900); Frederic Wolsey Pratt (born 1903). Bronson Alcott Pratt married Louise DeRevere Grant in 1913. Louisa Alcott Pratt married William F. Kussin in 1926. Titles published between 1824 and 1887, encompassing a variety of genres and subject areas (poetry, novels, memoirs, lectures, local history and genealogy, travel, Native American culture, philosophy, education, spiritualism, agriculture, and Goethe among them). All titles but one (a volume in French by George Sand) are in English; a half dozen are English translations of foreign works. The collection includes Boston, Burlington (Vt.), Cambridge, Chicago, London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Washington, and Waterbury (Conn.) imprints. Items are from the personal collection of Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Abigail May Alcott, Anna Bronson Alcott, and/or May Alcott, as indicated by supporting evidence presented in the item list, below. A number of books in the collection were presentation copies to members of the Alcott family. The Alcott Books copy of Henry David Thoreau's A Yankee in Canada (1866) was presented by Thoreau's sister Sophia to Louisa May Alcott. The volume of George Sand in French bears an inscription suggesting that it was obtained by one of the Alcotts from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library and bookstore at 13 West Street in Boston.

46 volumes.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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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...

Alcott, Abigail May, 1800-1877

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Abigail "Abba" Alcott (née May; October 8, 1800 – November 25, 1877) was an American activist for several causes and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts. She was the wife of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of four daughters, including Civil War novelist Louisa May Alcott. Abigail May came from a prominent New England family. On her mother's side, she was born into the families of Sewall and Quincy. Her mother, Dorothy Sewall, was the great-grand...

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...

Pratt, Frederic Alcott, 1863-1910

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Pratt was the nephew of the writer Louisa May Alcott and the son of her sister Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. Under Louisa May Alcott's will, he became the Trustee of her literary estate after her death in 1888. ...

Pratt, Frederic Wolsey, 1902-1957

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Alcott, A. Bronson (Amos Bronson), 1799-1888

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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights. Born in Wolcott, Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling bef...

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...

Kussin, Louisa Alcott, 1927-

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Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888

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Kussin family

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Pratt family

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