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The Louisa May Alcott Collection : Amos Bronson Alcott

Guide to the Louisa May Alcott Collection in L. Tom Perry Special Collections

About Bronson Alcott

A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), father of Louisa May Alcott, was a philosopher, educator, and writer. 

New resources in Special Collections

Prose, Poetry, Journals, and Correspondence

Concord Days. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872.

    Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1012 .C6 1872

New Connecticut: an autobiographical poem. Boston: Privately printed, 1881.

    Call number: Alcott Collection F 104 .W8 A64 1881

Ralph Waldo Emerson philosopher and seer: an estimate of his character and genius in prose and verse. Second edition. Boston: Cupples & Hurd, 1888.

    Call number: Alcott Collection 1631 .A65 1888

Sonnets and Canzonets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882.

    Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1012 .S6 1882

Tablets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868.

    Call number: Alcott Collection 1012 .T3 1868

The journals of Bronson Alcott. Edited by Odell Shephard. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938.

    Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1013 .A4 1938

The letters of A. Bronson Alcott. Edited by Richard L. Hernstadt. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1969.

    Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1013 .A45 H4 1969

Notes of conversations, 1848-1875. Edited by Karen English. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007.

    Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1013 .A43 N68 2007

Biography and Criticism

Christy, Arthur. The Orient in American transcendentalism: a study of Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott. New York: Octagon Books, 1963.

    Call number: Alcott Collection B 905 .C5 1963

Dahlstrand, Frederick C. Amos Bronson Alcott, an intellectual biography. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982.

    Call number: Alcott Collection B 908 .A54 D33 1982

Francis, Richard. Fruitlands: The Alcott family and their search for Utopia. Yale University Press, 2010.

    Call number: Alcott Collection 

James, Laurie. Outrageous questions: legacy of Bronson Alcott and America’s one-room schools . New York : Golden Heritage Press, 1994.

    Call number: Alcott Collection LC 5146 .J36 1994

Matteson, John. Eden’s outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

    Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1018 .M34 2007

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Record of Mr. Alcott’s school: exemplifying the principles and methods of moral culture (third edition). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874.

    Call number: Alcott Collection LB 695 .A3 P4 1874

Sanborn, F. B. A. Bronson Alcott: his life and philosophy. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.

    Call number: Alcott Collection B 908 .A54 S2 1893

Shepard, Odell. Pedlar’s progress: the life of Bronson Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937.

    Call number: Alcott Collection B 908 .A54 S5 1937