Authors: Eve LaPlante
Robie, Hannah, and, 143, 145, 150, 179
Alcott, Junius
death of, 189
mental state of, 159
personal and family life, 98, 104, 107, 130, 132, 136, 217
Alcott, Louisa May (Louie).
See also specific pieces of writing
acting roles, 176, 182
burial site, 285
business and finances, 150, 156–59, 161–64, 166, 175, 178, 181, 195, 202, 204, 223, 228, 234–35, 249–50, 252, 255, 269, 274
childhood and education, 59, 71, 74–75, 79, 85–86, 91–97, 104, 106–8, 112, 116, 122–23, 127–30, 132–45
Civil War and, 202, 204–9, 220
death of, 278
health issues, 155, 159, 189–90, 207–9, 216, 230, 234, 254, 256, 266–67, 273–75, 277–78, 288, 339
n
journals and writing, 12, 35, 96–97, 107–8, 111, 118–24, 128, 130, 134–36, 139–40, 157–59, 163, 165, 170–71, 174–75, 178, 181, 188, 190, 195–203, 207, 210–15, 217–18, 220–35, 238, 241–42, 244–50, 254, 256–57, 259, 263–68, 272–73, 276, 281, 317
n
, 322
n
—323
n
mentoring writers, 269
personal and family life, 1–5, 59–60, 71, 73–74, 79, 93, 95, 103, 110–11, 140, 142, 150, 152–56, 159–60, 162–65, 167, 171–74, 176, 180, 184–87, 191–95, 197–98, 203, 207–8, 210–11, 214–15, 221–23, 239–40, 243, 248, 256–58, 260–78, 285, 291, 299
n
pseudonyms used, 165, 176, 193, 214, 222, 224, 276, 317
n
slavery and, 75–76, 166, 224
suitors, 182, 199, 207, 221
travels outside America, 220–21, 232, 235–43, 281
women’s rights and, 120, 137–38, 168, 251–52, 269–71, 280–82
Alcott House (England), 84–85, 101
Allyn, Abby, 25–26
Allyn, John, 25
American Anti-Slavery Society, 67, 201
American Colonization Society, 63
American Revolution, 12–13, 251–52
American Unitarian Association, 237
Angell, George Thorndike, 286
Anthony, Susan B., 131, 201, 208, 226, 242–43, 292
antislavery movement.
See
slavery
Association for the Advancement of Women, 254
Atlantic
magazine, 191, 196, 199, 201, 203, 214
Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag
(LMA), 241
Bancroft, George, 302
n
Barnard, A.M.
See
Alcott, Louisa May (Louie)
Bartlett, Alice, 235–37, 241, 281
Bartlett, Josiah, 209
Bartol, Cyrus, 260
Barton, Cynthia, 68, 128, 334
n
Bedell, Madelon, 3, 5, 315
n
Beecher, Henry Ward, 54
“Behind a Mask” (LMA), 222
blackboards, 21
Black Law (Connecticut), 64
Bond, Caroline Greenwood, 177
Bond, George W., 313
n
Bond, Louisa Greenwood, 257, 275
Bosco, Ronald, 114
Boston, Massachusetts
Alcott, Louisa May, in, 224, 246, 254–55, 267, 271–74, 286
Alcott family in, 71–72, 75, 79–80, 85, 93, 152–58, 162–65, 170, 173, 175–76, 178–79, 181, 187, 248, 286
Boston Latin (school), 20, 23
British blockade of port, 17
Chauncy Hall (school), 20
description of, 12–13, 45–46, 48, 69, 75–76, 150–51, 189–90, 321
n
King’s Chapel, 9, 14, 22, 33, 36, 48–49, 87
Salem Street Infant School, 41
slavery and, 31–33, 51–56, 59, 64, 66, 72–73, 76
Temple School, 69–71, 78–86, 91, 97, 102, 151, 164, 221, 288
women’s rights and, 89–90
Boston Brahmins, 18, 23, 38
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 66, 76
Boston Herald,
278
Boston Latin (school), 20, 23
Boston Transcript,
211
Boston University, 272
Bremer, Frederika, 120, 157
Briggs, George, 170
Brontë sisters, 140, 178–79
Brooklyn, Connecticut.
See under
Connecticut
Brooklyn Peace Society, 34
Brooks, Van Wyck, 33, 52
Brown, John, 194, 198–99, 327
n
–328
n
Brownson, Orestes, 151–52
Buchanan, James, 172
Burns, Anthony, 171
Cabot, Susan, 42
Calvin, John, 23
Calvinism, 23
capital punishment, 34
Carlyle, Thomas, 161
celibacy, 85, 108, 114
Chandler, Ellen A., 225, 247, 332
n
Channing, Ellery, 115, 316
n
Channing, Walter, 151
Channing, William Ellery
Alcott, Abigail, and, 151
Alcott, Bronson, and, 41, 45, 69
May, Samuel Joseph, and, 30
personal beliefs and characteristics, 23
slavery and, 54–55
Chapman, Maria Weston, 80, 89
Chauncy Hall (school), 20
Cheever, Susan, 3
Cheney, Ednah Dow, 141, 199
Cheney, Seth, 161
Chesapeake & Ohio canal, 292
Child, David Lee, 88, 302
n
Child, Lydia Maria
business and career, 191, 302
n
childhood and education, 12, 88
personal and family life, 4, 88–89, 140, 243–44
slavery and, 32, 54, 65–66, 77, 89
women’s rights, 89, 191
writing by, 88
Christian Science, 253
Civil War, 201–2, 204–9, 219–20, 224, 292
Clapp, Elisha, 20
Clarke, James Freeman, 77–78
Coffin, Charles Joy (LFM’s brother), 219
Coffin, Charlotte G. (LFM’s sister), 219, 309
n
Coffin, Peter, 304
n
Commonwealth
journal, 210
Connecticut
Alcott, Abigail, in, 41, 46, 100–102
Alcott, Bronson, in, 38–40, 72, 120, 163, 177, 245–46, 256, 266
Crandall case, 63–66
Garrison, William Lloyd, and, 76–77
Hancocks marrying in, 18
May (Joseph) family in, 12–13
May (Samuel Joseph) family in, 30, 33–34, 36–37, 41, 46, 49, 56, 62, 76
slavery and, 34, 58
Connecticut Black Law, 64
consociate family, 103–4, 136
Conversations with Children on the Gospels
(ABA), 82, 84
Copley, John Singleton, 17
Cornell University, 5, 237, 293, 333
n
Correspondence with a Child
(Goethe), 140
coverture principle, 105
Crandall, Prudence, 63–66, 237, 291, 293, 309
n
Crawford, Mary C., 51
Cushing, Caleb, 302
n
Dahlstrand, Frederick, 233
Dahlstrand, Theodore, 78, 305
n
, 314
n
–315
n
dame schools, 7–8, 10, 75, 300
n
Davis, Winifred, 330
n
Dawes, William, 11, 287
Dial
journal, 115
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 204, 208
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 247, 275
Donaldson, Mary Ann, 69
Douglas, Ann, 209
Douglass, Frederick, 53, 131, 169, 194, 292
Dr. Huntington’s Society, 151–52, 321
n
Dred Scott case, 171
Eddy, Mary Baker, 253
education
affluence and, 312
n
Boston Latin (school), 20, 23
Chauncy Hall (school), 20
Crandall case, 63–66
Lexington Classical School, 137
modes of, 7–8, 10–11, 41–42, 74–75
Normal School, 109, 116, 225
reforms for public or universal, 23, 37, 50, 53, 64–66, 70
Salem Street Infant School, 41
Temple School, 69–71, 78–86, 91, 97, 102, 151, 164, 221, 288
women and, 24, 29, 38, 40, 89–90, 137–38, 166–67, 237, 252–53, 284
Eight Cousins
(LMA), 241, 254
Elbert, Monika, 3, 129
Elbert, Sarah, 53, 233
Eliot, Samuel, 302
n
Emancipation Proclamation (1863), 202
Emerson, Charles, 102
Emerson, Ellen, 241
Emerson, Emily, 136
Emerson, George Barrell, 16, 199, 302
n
, 318
n
Emerson, Lidian, 83, 144, 252, 260
Emerson, Mary Moody, 144
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Alcott, Abigail, and, 135–36, 144
Alcott, Bronson, and, 41, 44, 78, 83, 85, 88, 98, 110, 153–54, 163, 180–81, 253
Alcott, Louisa May, and, 4, 140, 193
Alcott family and, 95, 97, 184
burial site, 285
death of, 268
education, 302
n
Fruitlands and, 115
May, Samuel Joseph, and, 197, 199
Sanborn, Frank, and, 198
slavery and, 194–95
Thoreau, Henry David, and, 95, 184
writing and, 191–92
Emerson, Waldo, 98
employment agencies, 157, 162–63
England
Alcott, Bronson, travels to, 2, 85, 98, 100–101, 103–5, 126
Alcott, Louisa May, travels to, 220–21, 242
Alcott House, 84–85, 101
May, Samuel Joseph, travels to, 195
Equal Rights Association, 226
Everett, Abraham, 117
Everett, Edward, 77
Fairfield, Flora.
See
Alcott, Louisa May (Louie)
“FAITH” poem (LMA), 158
The Family Nurse
(Child), 88
Farrar, Calvin, 147
Fetterley, Judith, 222, 232
Fields, Anna Adams, 203
Fields, James T., 202–3
Fillmore, Millard, 314
n
Fireside Stories
(LMA), 232
Fisher, Dr., 147
The Flag of Our Union,
222
Flora (nurse), 31
Flower Fables
fairy tales and poems (LMA), 170, 174–75, 275
Foote, Reverend Mr., 260
Ford, Sophia, 137
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 201
Francis, Richard, 315
n
Fredrickson, George, 18
Free Inquirers, 47
Freeman, James, 9, 23, 30
Frothingham, Frederick, 232
Frothingham, John, 24
Frothingham, Martha May, 24
Frothingham, Samuel May (AMA’s cousin), 24–25, 28, 232, 254
The Frugal Housewife
(Child), 88
Fruitlands.
See under
Massachusetts
Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 131, 169, 171, 292, 322
n
Fuller, Horace B., 223
Fuller, Margaret
Alcott, Abigail, and, 59, 103–4
Alcott, Bronson, and, 82, 97
Alcott, Louisa May, and, 4, 97
business and career, 82–83, 191, 204
childhood and education, 81–82
death of, 156
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and, 110
slavery and, 54
travels abroad, 156, 220, 240
writing by, 105, 115, 126, 191
Fuller, Timothy, 82, 91
Gage, Ann Sargent, 147–50, 290, 320
n
—321
n
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 292
Gage, Rowena, 149
Gage, Thomas, 17
Garrison, William Lloyd
Alcott, Abigail, and, 260
Alcott, Bronson, and, 142, 155, 314
n
Crandall case and, 65
hydrotherapy treatments, 144
May, Samuel Joseph, and, 167, 197, 219, 243
slavery and, 51–56, 76–78, 154–55, 195, 226, 288
women’s rights and, 67, 89, 168–69, 253
Geist, Christian, 183
genealogy chart, 295
Glover, Mary Baker, 253
Graham, Sylvester, 106
Granary Burying Ground, 287
Grant, Ulysses S., 219, 251
Greaves, James Pierrepont, 84–85, 101
Greele, Louisa May (AMA’s niece), 258
Greele, Louisa May (AMA’s sister)
childhood and education, 7, 22, 29
death of, 46
personal and family life, 16, 29–30, 33, 36, 254
Greele, Louisa May (LMG’s daughter), 46
Greele, Samuel, 29, 33
Greele, Samuel Sewall (LMG’s son), 46, 115
Greeley, Horace, 156, 179
Greenwood, Louisa Caroline, 95, 313
n
Greenwood, Rev. Dr. Francis, 15, 49, 287, 313
n
Grimké, Angelina, 90–91, 226
Grimké, Sarah, 54, 90–91
Haines, Jane, 60
Haines, Reuben, 50, 58, 291
Hale, Edward Everett, 23
Hancock, Dorothy Quincy
death of, 47, 306
n
personal and family life, 12, 16–18, 35, 45, 286, 289
slavery and, 31
Hancock, John, 12, 16–17, 31, 286
Hancock, Lydia, 17, 31, 286
Hancock, Thomas, 16, 286–87
Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 194
Harper’s Weekly,
214
Harvard College (later Harvard University)
Alcott, Louisa May, journals archived, 5
Boston Brahmins and, 18
Channing, William Ellery, and, 41
Child, David Lee, and, 88
Coffin, Peter, 304
n
Emerson, George B., and, 199, 318
n
founding of, 23
Fuller, Timothy, and, 81–82
Greele, Samuel, and, 29
Huntington, Frederic Dan, 321
n
man schools as preparation for, 7, 70
May, Joseph (AMA’s father), and, 166
May, Joseph (SJM’s son), and, 166–67, 172, 177, 199, 306
n
May, Samuel Joseph, and, 11, 20, 24–25, 27, 53, 88, 167, 243–44, 290, 302
n
, 312
n
Plummer bequest, 242
Quincy, Josiah, and, 81
Sanborn, Franklin, and, 161
Sewall, Joseph, and, 300
n
, 312
n
Sewall, Samuel, and, 19, 300
n
, 312
n
Sewall, Samuel E., and, 52–53
Thoreau, Henry David, and, 142
Ticknor, George, and, 50
Tuckerman, Joseph, and, 41
Wesselhoeft, Conrad, and, 272