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| Named Person: | Louisa May Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Margaret Fuller; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Henry David Thoreau |
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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Cheever |
| ISBN: | 9780743264617 0743264614 |
| OCLC Number: | 67728682 |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Susan Cheever. |
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Abstract:
A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
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- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Concord.
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- Concord (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- Concord (Mass.) -- Biography.
- Alcott, Louisa May, -- 1832-1888.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882.
- Fuller, Margaret, -- 1810-1850.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864.
- Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862.
- Transcendentalists (New England)