A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), father of Louisa May Alcott, was a philosopher, educator, and writer.
Concord Days. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872.
New Connecticut: an autobiographical poem. Boston: Privately printed, 1881.
Ralph Waldo Emerson philosopher and seer: an estimate of his character and genius in prose and verse. Second edition. Boston: Cupples & Hurd, 1888.
Sonnets and Canzonets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882.
Tablets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868.
The journals of Bronson Alcott. Edited by Odell Shephard. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938.
The letters of A. Bronson Alcott. Edited by Richard L. Hernstadt. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1969.
Notes of conversations, 1848-1875. Edited by Karen English. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007.
Christy, Arthur. The Orient in American transcendentalism: a study of Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott. New York: Octagon Books, 1963.
Dahlstrand, Frederick C. Amos Bronson Alcott, an intellectual biography. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982.
Francis, Richard. Fruitlands: The Alcott family and their search for Utopia. Yale University Press, 2010.
James, Laurie. Outrageous questions: legacy of Bronson Alcott and America’s one-room schools . New York : Golden Heritage Press, 1994.
Matteson, John. Eden’s outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Record of Mr. Alcott’s school: exemplifying the principles and methods of moral culture (third edition). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874.
Sanborn, F. B. A. Bronson Alcott: his life and philosophy. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
Shepard, Odell. Pedlar’s progress: the life of Bronson Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937.