The Routledge Companion to the American Civil War Era by Hugh Tulloch

Author:Hugh Tulloch [Tulloch, Hugh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Reference, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN: 9781134583485
Google: MPyCAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-05T01:15:08+00:00

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT (1799–1888)

(Connecticut), utopian reformer From 1834 to 1839, he was an unorthodox teacher in Boston. School had to close because parents disapproved of mixed-race classes. In 1840 to Concord, mixing in Emerson’s circle and contributing ‘Orphic Sayings’ to Transcendentalist journal, The Dial. Trip to England, 1842. Met Carlyle, who commented that Alcott was ‘all bent on saving the world by a return to acorns and the golden age’. In 1844 made brief utopian experiment in communal living at Fruitlands in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Garrisonian abolitionist and vegetarian. Rescued from insolvency by publication of his daughter’s – Louisa May Alcott – hugely popular Little Women (1868).

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