Eden's outcasts, the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father, by John Matteson
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Eden's outcasts, the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father, by John Matteson
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-470) and index
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Main title
Eden's outcasts
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sound recording
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by John Matteson
Sub title
the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
Summary
Portrait of nineteenth-century "Little Women" (DC00882) author and her father, Bronson Alcott, a noted New England educator and friend of transcendentalists Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. Describes the influence of Bronson's penury and emotional fragility on Louisa, who assisted the family financially despite her Civil War-contracted illness. Pulitzer Prize. 2007
Table Of Contents
Disgrace -- Beginnings -- A birthday in Germantown -- The temple school -- "Orpheus at the plough" -- The sowing of the seeds -- First fruits -- Lost illusions -- Father and daughter -- Destitution -- Orchard House -- War -- Shadows and sunlight -- Journeys east and west -- Miracles -- "The wise and beautiful truths of the father" -- "Come up with me"
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adult
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