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Permissions and Credits

Quotations in text are reprinted with permission from:

Houghton Library, Harvard University: Amos Bronson Alcott papers (MS Am 1130.9-1130.12); Louisa May Alcott additional papers (MS Am 1817, MS Am 2114, MS Am 1130.13); Louisa May Alcott papers (MS Am 800.23); Alcott family additional papers (MS Am 1130.14-1130.16); Alcott family additional papers (MS Am 2745); Alcott family additional papers (MS Am 1817.2); Alcott family letters (MS Am 1130 and MS Am 1130.1-1130.2); Alcott family papers (MS Am 1130.4).

The May Anti-Slavery manuscript collection, #4601. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Quotations from papers at Orchard House used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.

Illustration credits:

Insert page 1: Map of Boston, 1840 Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.

Insert page 2: Etching of Abigail May Alcott and photograph of Bronson Alcott used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.

Insert page 3: Photograph of young adult Louisa May Alcott used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.

Insert page 4: Photograph of Anna Alcott, painting of May Alcott, drawing of Lizzie Alcott, photograph of Fred and Johnny Pratt, and photograph of Lulu Nieriker used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.

Insert page 5: Photograph of Orchard House used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House; painting of King’s Chapel, Boston: Photograph © 2012 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Insert page 6: Photograph of Charlotte May Wilkinson and portrait of Samuel Joseph May courtesy of Eve LaPlante; engraving of Syracuse, 1852 courtesy of the Onondaga Historical Association Museum & Research Center.

Insert page 7: “Heralds of Freedom” courtesy of Boston Athenæum; photograph of Mill Dam, 1860 courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department.

Insert page 8: Photograph of older Louisa May Alcott used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.

Index

Note for Abbreviations:
AMA (Abigail May Alcott); ABA (A. Bronson Alcott); LMA (Louisa May Alcott); LMC (Lydia Maria Child); LMG (Louisa May Greele); DQH (Dorothy Quincy Hancock); JM (Joseph May); LFM (Lucretia Flagge Coffin May); MCM (Mary Ann Cary May); SJM (Samuel Joseph May); EPP (Elizabeth Palmer Peabody); AAP (Anna Alcott Pratt); SES (Samuel E. Sewall); CMW (Charlotte May Wilkinson)

abolition of slavery.
See
slavery

Adams, Abigail, 14, 18

Adams, John, 12, 18

Adams, John Quincy, 54

Adams, Samuel, 17

Alcott, A. Bronson.
See
Alcott, Bronson (AMA’s husband)

Alcott, Abigail May (Abba)

   burial site, 285

   business and finances, 26, 28–30, 74–75, 95–96, 109–10, 126, 131–32, 137, 141–54, 157, 162–63, 173, 177 (
See also under
Alcott, Bronson (AMA’s husband)

   childhood and education, 7–8, 10, 16, 19–22, 24, 26, 53, 59, 75, 90, 299
n

   death of, 258, 260, 262

   health issues, 20–21, 60, 72, 93, 106, 122, 129, 152–53, 155, 159, 163, 175, 177, 189, 193–94, 199–200, 203, 214, 217, 222, 242–43, 247, 253, 256–58

   journals and writing, 4–5, 19, 95, 120, 125–27, 134, 163, 193, 216–17, 238, 246, 248, 265

   personal and family life, 2–6, 11, 17, 21, 25, 29–30, 36–51, 56–62, 66–75, 81–89, 93–95, 97–147, 149–57, 159–65, 169–70, 173–74, 176–88, 192–94, 196–97, 199–201, 209–10, 217–21, 224, 229, 232, 234, 236–37, 241, 245–49, 253–58, 264–65, 300
n

   slavery and, 51–56, 66–67, 142, 204

   social work and, 151–55, 163

   women’s rights and, 45, 247, 252, 282

Alcott, Abigail May (AMA’s daughter).
See
Nieriker, Abigail May Alcott (AMA’s daughter)

Alcott, Anna Bronson (AMA’s daughter).
See
Pratt, Anna Alcott (AMA’s daughter)

Alcott, Bronson (AMA’s husband)

   burial site, 285

   business and finances, 37, 39, 42–47, 50–51, 57–58, 60–61, 68–71, 78, 81–85, 91–92, 98, 109–10, 112–32, 141, 152, 154, 157, 162–63, 173, 175, 177, 180–81, 223, 233–34, 256

   childhood and education, 38–41, 44, 71, 74, 97, 130, 245–46

   death of, 277

   flirtations and romances, 160–61, 225, 253

   health issues, 117, 123, 155, 159, 189, 268, 271, 273, 275–76

   journals and writing, 57, 70–71, 78–79, 82–86, 93, 107, 117, 127, 135, 153, 159–61, 195, 225, 232, 263–66

   personal and family life, 2–4, 37–49, 61, 66–75, 78–88, 93–95, 97–133, 135–36, 139, 142–43, 145, 153–55, 157, 159, 162–65, 169–70, 173, 175, 177–78, 180–84, 186, 193, 196, 199–200, 203–4, 208–10, 215,
217–18, 221–22, 224, 243–44, 247–49, 253, 255, 264–65, 274, 314
n
—315
n

   slavery and, 52–53, 72–73, 142, 154–55, 171, 194–95, 327
n

   travels to American West, 168–70, 177, 193, 221, 229, 241, 245–46, 266, 268

   travels to England, 2, 85, 98, 100–101, 103–5, 126

   as vegetarian, 89, 101, 106

   Willis, Benjamin, and, 175

   women’s rights and, 232–33

Alcott, Elizabeth (AMA’s third daughter, Lizzie or Betty)

   childhood and education, 72, 81, 86, 96–97, 112, 116, 135, 143, 150, 152, 163–64

   death of, 183–84, 187

   health issues, 155, 177, 179, 181–83, 322
n

   journals and writing, 108