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A. Bronson Alcott, His Life and Philosophy

by William T. Harris, F. B. Sanborn. 679 pgs.

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Contributors:

   William T. Harris, F. B. Sanborn

Publisher:

   Biblo and Tannen

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1965
Subjects:   Alcott, Amos Bronson,--1799-1888
Table of contents
CONTENTS.
PAGE CHAPTER VIII. THE "DIAL," THE COMMUNITY, AND THE CONVERSATIONS 355
CHAPTER IX. THE CONCORD IDYL RENEWED. — ANTISLAVERY DAYS 422
CHAPTER X. LIFE IN BOSTON. — TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUBS 459
CHAPTER XI. THE ALCOTT FAMILY IN LITERATURE. — WALPOLE AND CONCORD 495
CHAPTER XII. THE CLOSING YEARS 527
CHAPTER XIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BRONSON ALCOTT AND THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS 544
INDEX 665
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Bronson Alcott, Teacher
Book by Dorothy McCuskey; The Macmillan Company, 1940
Subjects: Alcott, Amos Bronson--1799-1888
...whom Boston recognized as A. Bronson Alcott, philosopher, educator, reformer...Wolcott, Connecticut, November 29, 1799. His parents, Anna Bronson and Joseph Chatfield Alcock, named him Amos Bronson, and he was called Amos until...
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A. Bronson Alcott, His Life and Philosophy
Book by F. B. Sanborn, William T. Harris; Biblo and Tannen, 1965
Subjects: Alcott, Amos Bronson--1799-1888
A. BRONSON ALCOTT VOLUME II. In his eighty-second year, travelling in Iowa. 1882. A. BRONSON ALCOTT HIS LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY BY...XIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BRONSON ALCOTT AND THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS 544...
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Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
Book by Clara Endicott Sears, Louisa M. Alcott; The Riverside Press, 1915
Subjects: Alcott, Amos Bronson--1799-1888
...Fathers. He died in 1888. The following extracts...Brook Farm. I go to Mr. Alcotts next Tuesday, if nothing...un- aesthetic." Mr. Alcotts death in 1888 was the occasion of...tub would have been Alcotts ideal if he had carried...
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New England Transcendentalism and St. Louis Hegelianism: Phases in the History of American Idealism
Book by Henry A. Pochmann; Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, 1948
Subjects: Alcott, Amos Bronson--1799-1888, Philosophy--Missouri--Saint Louis--History, Transcendentalism (New England)
...THE CONVERGENCE TOWARD CONCORD As early as 1840 Amos Bronson Alcott had conceived the idea of an academe or "university...many tickets each year." As it was, the balance in 1888 was thirty-one cents, which, says Sanborn, he pocketed...
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The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia
Book by Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. Phillips, Madeleine B. Stern; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Alcott, Louisa May--1832-1888--Encyclopedias, Authors, American--19th Century--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women And Literature--United States--History--19th Century--Encyclopedias
...Alcott 1996 . SHP Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799 1888 , LMAs father, Transcendentalist...and essayist, was born Amos Bronson Alcox on 29 November 1799 near Wolcott, Connecticut...altering his family name, Alcott traced his lineage back...
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The Alcott of Aquarius - Articulating a Practical Christianity, Louisa May Alcott Examined the Struggles and Triumphs of Young Girls and Revolutionized the Writing of Children's Books
Magazine article by Laurie Morrow; World and I, Vol. 17, May 2002
Subjects: Alcott, Amos Bronson--Behavior, Alcott, Louisa May May--Behavior, American writers--Behavior, Authors, American--Behavior, Children's literature authors--Behavior, Children's writers--Behavior, Philosophers--Behavior, Women authors--Behavior, Women writers--Behavior
...gratification against a greater, higher good. Alcotts father was the New England Transcendentalist philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott (1799--1888). Though never financially successful, the largely self-taught Bronson became an influential reformer of American...


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Author's Short Career as a Wartime Nurse
Newspaper article by Peter Cliffe; The Washington Times, June 23, 2001
...second of four daughters of Amos Bronson Alcott (born in 1799, also on Nov. 29) and his wife...Although not well-educated, Amos Alcott had been a teacher and wrote...Alcott died, age 88, on March 4, 1888. His by then famous daughter died...


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Alcott, Bronson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALCOTT, BRONSON ol k t, al , kot, 1799 1888, American educational...Wolcott, Conn., as Amos Bronson Alcox. His meager...favored at the time. Alcotts own records, as...Transcendental Curriculum, or Bronson Alcotts Library (1984...


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