Marmee & Louisa (72 page)
Authors: Eve LaPlante
Pratt, John Sewall (AAP’s son Johnny), 220, 241–42, 274, 278
The President’s Daughter
(Bremer), 120
Proverb Stories
(LMA), 241
Puritans, 22–23
Quakers, 57
Quincy, Dorothy.
See
Hancock, Dorothy Quincy
Quincy, Edmund, 14, 17, 31
Quincy, Edmund, Jr., 289
Quincy, Josiah, III, 35, 48, 70, 151
raw food diet, 106
Record of a School
(Peabody), 70, 78, 84–85
Reed, Harrison, 234
Reisen, Harriet, 315
n
religious beliefs.
See specific religions and sects
Revere, Paul, 11, 17, 286–87
rheumatic fever, 177
Richardson, James, 162
Ripley, George, 115
Ripley, Sophia, 115
“The Rival Painters” short story (LMA), 165
Rivard, Catherine, 164, 243, 337
n
Robbins, Eliza, 21
Roberts Brothers publishing firm, 223, 232, 235, 278
Robie, Hannah
Alcott, Abigail, and, 129, 194
Alcott, Elizabeth, and, 143, 145, 150, 179
birth of, 318
n
Rochester Polytechnic Institute, 172
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 284
Ropes, Hannah, 206–8
Rose in Bloom
(LMA), 241, 254
Russell, William, 50
Salem Street Infant School (Boston), 41
Salem witch trials, 19
Salisbury, Elizabeth Sewall, 7, 14
Salisbury, Samuel, 7, 14
Salisbury, Samuel, Jr., 318
n
Salisbury, Stephen, 14
Sanborn, Franklin, 161, 184, 198–99, 210–11, 266
Saturday Evening Gazette,
170, 174–75, 178, 192
The Scarlet Letter
(Hawthorne), 157, 249
Selby, Charles, 176
The Selling of Joseph
(Sewall), 19
Sewall, Dorothy Quincy, 14, 300
n
Sewall, Joseph, 14, 16, 22, 300
n
, 318
n
Sewall, Lucy, 220
Sewall, Lydia, 29
Sewall, Mary (Thomas’s wife), 189, 288
Sewall, Mary Robie (Joseph’s wife), 318
n
Sewall, Samuel (judge)
burial site, 287
business and finances, 14
education, 300
n
public repentance of, 254–55
slavery and, 19, 32
women’s rights and, 19–20, 302
n
Sewall, Samuel E.
business and finances, 96, 126, 231, 274, 317
n
education, 20
personal and family life, 52, 143, 150, 178, 181, 220, 289, 302
n
slavery and, 31, 53, 56, 171–72, 195, 288
women’s rights and, 226, 279
Sewall, Thomas, 100, 143, 178–79, 189, 288
Sewall & Salisbury, 318
n
Shakers, 114–15, 118–19, 127
Shawl-Straps
essay (LMA), 281
Shealy, Daniel, 218
Shepard, Odell, 163, 231, 264
Sherman, William T., 219
Showalter, Elaine, 209
Sicherman, Barbara, 223
slavery
abolition of, 226
Alcott, Abigail, and, 51–56, 66–67, 142, 204
Alcott, Bronson, and, 52–53, 72–73, 142, 154–55, 171, 194–95
Alcott, Louisa May, and, 75–76, 166, 224
Anthony, Susan B., 201
Brown, John, and, 194
Channing and, 54–55
Child, Lydia Maria, and, 32, 54, 65–66, 77, 89
Civil War and, 201–2
Commonwealth
journal and, 210
Connecticut and, 34, 58
Crandall case and, 63–66
Douglass, Frederick, and, 53, 131, 169, 194
Dred Scott case, 171
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and, 194–95
Fugitive Slave Act, 131, 169, 171, 322
n
Fuller and, 54
Garrison, William Lloyd, and, 51–56, 76–78, 154–55, 195, 226, 288
Grimké sisters and, 90–91
Hancocks and, 31
“Jerry Rescue,” 169, 292
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 172
Massachusetts and, 31–33, 51–56, 59, 64, 66, 72–73, 76
May, Joseph, and, 32–33
May, Lucretia, and, 58–59
May, Samuel Joseph, and, 30–33, 51–56, 58–59, 72–73, 76–78, 109, 116, 131, 169, 171, 195, 199, 201, 288
New York and, 131, 201, 292, 324
n
Parker and, 144, 166
Pennsylvania and, 66–67
Sewall, Samuel (judge), and, 19, 32
Sewall, Samuel E., and, 31, 53, 56, 171–72, 195, 288
Smith, Gerrit, and, 169
Thoreau, Henry David, and, 194–95, 328
n
Underground Railroad and, 131, 171, 324
n
Virginia and, 194
Webster and, 154, 322
n
Wilkinson, Charlotte May, and, 199
women and abolition movement, 89
Sleepy Hollow cemetery, 285
Smith, Gerrit, 169, 243, 292
Smith College, 250, 284
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 286
Society of Friends, 57
Spinning Wheel Stories
(LMA), 241
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 169, 226, 244, 292
Stearns, Eliza, 145–48, 321
n
Stepanski, Lisa, 217
Stern, Madeleine, 128, 208, 218, 227
Stone, Lucy, 169, 247, 270
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 144
“Sunlight” indexmain (LMA), 165
Syracuse, New York
Alcott, Abigail, in, 167
Alcott, Abigail May (daughter), in, 200
Alcott, Anna, in, 164, 169, 172, 175, 177
Alcott, Bronson, in, 168–69, 177–78, 182–83, 193
Alcott, Louisa May, in, 167, 171, 173, 292
“Jerry Rescue,” 169, 292
May (Samuel Joseph) family in, 130–31, 137, 166, 193, 318
n
population growth in, 318
n
slavery and, 201, 324
n
Underground Railroad and, 131
women’s rights and, 168–69
Syracuse Public Library, 237
Syracuse Railroad, 201
Tablets
(ABA), 225, 232
“Taming a Tartar” (LMA), 213–14
Tappan, Arthur, 77
Tappan, Lewis, 77
Temple School (Boston).
See under
education
Theriot, Nancy, 105, 191
Thompson, George, 72, 76
Thoreau, Henry David
Alcott, Anna, and, 197
Alcott, Bronson, and, 153, 181, 186
Alcott, Louisa May, and, 4, 142, 278
burial site, 285
death of, 255
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and, 95, 184
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and, 102
personal and family life, 285
slavery and, 194–95, 328
n
writing and, 191
Ticknor, George, 50
Ticknor & Fields, 203
Tilton, Elanor, 314
n
“To Mother” poem (LMA), 111
“To Nan” poem (LMA), 268
“To the First Robin” poem (LMA), 96–97
Transcendentalism, 115, 195
Transcendental Wild Oats
(LMA), 120–21, 123, 246
“TRANSFIGURATION” poem (LMA), 259
Truth, Sojourner, 226
Tubman, Harriet, 292
Tuckerman, Joseph, 23, 41, 51
Turnquist, Jan, 305
n
, 326
n
Twice-Told Tales
(Hawthorne), 102
The Two Bonnycastles
(Morton), 176
Underground Railroad, 131, 171, 324
n
Under the Lilacs
(LMA), 241, 256–57
Unitarianism, 23, 30, 182, 303
n
vegetarians, 106
Vermont water cure, 272
Virginia, slavery and, 194
von Mehren, Joan, 103–4
Walpole, New Hampshire, 175–77, 179–80
Walpole Amateur Dramatic Company, 176
Washington, D.C., 205–9
Waterford Water Cure (Maine), 144, 146–50, 321
n
Webster, Daniel, 52, 154–55, 289–90, 322
n
Weld, Anna, 220–21, 239
Wells, Elizabeth May, 316
n
, 320
n
Wells, Elizabeth Willis
childhood and education, 29
personal and family life, 94, 143, 233, 288, 314
n
Wells, Lizzie, 236, 241, 258
Wells, Louisa, 236
Wesselhoeft, Conrad, 257, 272
Wheeler, William, 320
n
“A Whisper in the Dark” (LMA), 276–77
White, Andrew, 237
Whitman, Alfred, 332
n
Whitman, Walt, 179, 253
The Widow’s Victim
(Selby), 176
Wilbur, Hervey B., 177, 200
Wilkinson, Abigail May (CMW’s daughter), 254, 293, 336
n
Wilkinson, Alfred (CMW’s husband), 172, 201, 219, 254, 271–72
Wilkinson, Alfred, Jr. (CMW’s eldest son, Fred), 211, 249, 330
n
Wilkinson, Charlotte (CMW’s only daughter), 249
Wilkinson, Charlotte May (SJM’s daughter)
childhood and education, 2, 62, 84, 91, 116, 167
health issues, 182
personal and family life, 171–72, 176, 182, 185, 197, 211, 219, 237, 243, 249, 254, 272, 283
slavery and, 199
Wilkinson, Josephine May (CMW’s daughter), 254, 336
n
Wilkinson, Katherine May (CMW’s daughter), 250, 284, 304
n
Wilkinson, Margaret, 182
Wilkinson, Marion, 284
Willis, Benjamin, Jr., 29, 142–43, 175
Willis, Elizabeth.
See
Wells, Elizabeth Willis
Willis, Eliza May (AMA’s sister)
birth and death, 14, 29
childhood and education, 7, 22
personal and family life, 14, 25, 29, 117, 236
Willis, Hamilton, 29, 314
n
Wilson, Charlotte May, 283–85, 293
Windship, Charles, 25, 47, 93
Windship, Louisa, 94, 314
n
Winslow, John, 207
Winthrop, John, 287
Wisconsin, women’s rights and, 168
Wisniewski, Ladislaw, 332
n
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
(Fuller), 105, 126, 191
Woman’s Journal,
247, 252, 270
women’s rights
abolition movement and, 89
Alcott, Abigail, and, 45, 120, 137–38, 168, 247, 252, 282
Alcott, Bronson, and, 232–33
Alcott, Louisa May, and, 120, 137–38, 168, 251–52, 269–71, 280–82
celebrations and, 251–52
Child, Lydia Maria, and, 89, 191
coverture principle, 105
education and, 24, 29, 38, 40, 89–90, 166–67, 237, 252–53
Garrison, William Lloyd, and, 67, 89, 168–69, 253
marriage and, 105, 126, 191–92, 317
n
Massachusetts and, 168–69, 251–53
May, Lucretia, and, 91, 312
n
May, Samuel Joseph, and, 89–91, 137, 169
New York and, 168–69, 254
nursing and, 223–24
Nye and, 67
Phillips, Wendell, and, 169
public meetings and, 308
n
publishing and, 223–24
Sewall, Samuel, and, 19–20, 302
n
Sewall, Samuel E., and, 226, 279
Smith, Gerrit, and, 169
Stone, Lucy, and, 169
suffrage, 137, 168, 226, 247, 252–53, 269–70, 279
teaching and, 224
Wilson, Charlotte May, and, 284
Wood, Gordon, 31
Worcester, Noah, 34
Work: A Story of Experience
(LMA), 218, 241
Wright, Henry Gardiner, 101, 104–5, 110, 217, 265
Yacovone, Donald, 55
Yazoo land scandal, 15
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
LaPlante, Eve.
Marmee & louisa : the untold story of Louisa May Alcott and her mother /
by Eve LaPlante. — 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Alcott, Louisa May, 1832–1888– Family. I. Title.
