Marmee & Louisa (70 page)

   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