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

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

Cheever, Susan. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780743264617
  • ISBN: 0743264614
  • Physical Description: xvi, 223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2006]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Massachusetts > Concord.
American literature > Massachusetts > Concord > History and criticism.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Concord (Mass.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Concord (Mass.) > Biography.
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