Word: alcotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Axel - Freda Lingstrom - Little, Brown ($2.50). The story of three adopted children of a rich bachelor. Laid in England, Norway, Vienna, this Swedish-Englishwoman's novel suggests Louisa May Alcott in its engaging, tame but not vapid characters...
...oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...
...heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with. . ."). Radicals and reformers like Alcott thought him anti-social ("God does not approve of the popular movements," said Henry, who believed in reforming oneself first). The good citizens of Concord simply called him a loafer who had thrown away a Harvard education...
Francis Lloyd Stutzman, William Robert Thompson, Robert Kirkpatrick Weary, Charles Ephraim Westervelt, Jr. William Alcott Wolfe...
...family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...