Amos Bronson Alcott (29 November 1799-4 March 1888), educator and philosopher, was born at Spindle Hill, Connecticut. His formal schooling ended when he was thirteen, though he continued to read on his own, and he soon became a peddler. A turning point...

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the most brilliant and visionary American educator of his time, was also the most extreme of the New England transcendentalists. Bronson Alcott was born near Wolcott, Conn., on Nov. 29, 1799. His was an old New England...

Since his death, Bronson Alcott has been known best as Louisa May Alcott's father. Nevertheless, he was important in his own right as a central figure in American Transcendentalism and in the swirl of mid-nineteenth-century reform that included the...

9780838641187 Notes of conversations, 1848-1875; Amos Bronson Alcott. Alcott, Amos Bronson. Ed. by Karen English. Fairleigh Dickinson U.P. 2007 286 pages $55.00 Hardcover PS1013 Alcott's fame came primarily from his work in philosophy and...

BOOK REVIEW Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father By John Matteson Norton, 497 pp., illustrated, $29.95 "To the extent that a written page permits knowledge of a different time and departed souls, this book has...