Word: alcotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOURNALS OF BRONSON ALCOTT - Edited by Odell Shepard - Little, Brown...
...small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott...
Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April...
...England's culture had begun to go to seed before the Civil War, but the war acted as an almost killing frost. Where Bronson Alcott's first experiences were peaceful peddling trips to the South, his sensitive daughter Louisa got her initiation into the great world in a Civil War hospital, where, in her first hour on duty, her patient died, and where she tried to lessen a soldier's agony by reciting Dickens to him while his arm was being amputated without an anesthetic. Bronson Alcott returned from his trips across the U. S. in times...
...careful, sympathetic biography, Katharine Anthony's Louisa May Alcott points the contrast between father and daughter, draws a subtle picture of the relationship within the strange Alcott family, but is principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life...