American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work / Susan Cheever.
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]
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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