American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work

Author

Susan Cheever

Call Number

• 974.44 C5156 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.

Physical Description

xvi, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

• Concord, Massachusetts
• The Alcotts arrive for the first time
• Louisa, girl interrupted
• Louisa in love...Henry David Thoreau
• Sic Vita
• Two loves
• Ellen Sewall
• Money
• Emerson pays for everything
• Two deaths
• The curse of Salem
• Hawthorne emerges
• The execution
• Another triangle
• Bronson Alcott, peddler turned pedant
• Fruitlands
• Sex
• Thoreau goes to New York City
• Wall of fire
• Walden Pond
• Margaret Fuller, the sexy muse
• Rome
• The Margaret ghost
• Hawthorne leaves Salem forever
• Stockbridge
• Melville
• The railroad
• Community
• Without Margaret
• Louisa May Alcott returns
• Louisa in Boston
• Concord again
• Walden, Walden
• Thoreau now
• Leaving Walden
• The birth and death of Margaret Fuller
• Shipwreck
• The Hawthornes' return to Concord
• President Frank
• Bayonets and bullets
• Local martyr
• The death of Thoreau
• Louisa in Washington, D.C.
• Return and illness
• Hawthorne leaves Concord
• Death
• Little Women
• Emerson and the fire
• Concord, today.