The Alcotts: Biography of a Family

By Madelon Bedell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517540312
• ISBN13: 9780517540312
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hippies of the 1840s

After reading, "Little Women", one may think that Louisa May Alcott's upbringing was thoroughly traditional. But she had a remarkable childhood, being raised by Bronson Alcott -- a transcendentalist, a dreamer, an early childhood-education theorist, and a troubled man who teetered over the brink into insanity on more than one occasion. This fascinating book reveals Bronson, his peppery and long-suffering wife, Abby, and their four girls, on whom "Little Women" was based. The story of the March family grows only more fascinating after reading the story of the Alcott family.