American Bloomsbury
Subtitle: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work
By: Susan Cheever
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780743264617
Subjects: Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Concord; American literature -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- History and criticism; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Concord (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Concord (Mass.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-214) and index
Table of contents: title: Concord, Massachusetts; title: The Alcotts arrive for the first time; title: Louisa, girl interrupted; title: Louisa in love...Henry David Thoreau; title: Sic Vita; title: Two loves; title: Ellen Sewall; title: Money; title: Emerson pays for everything; title: Two deaths; title: The curse of Salem; title: Hawthorne emerges; title: The execution; title: Another triangle; title: Bronson Alcott, peddler turned pedant; title: Fruitlands; title: Sex; title: Thoreau goes to New York City; title: Wall of fire; title: Walden Pond; title: Margaret Fuller, the sexy muse; title: Rome; title: The Margaret ghost; title: Hawthorne leaves Salem forever; title: Stockbridge; title: Melville; title: The railroad; title: Community; title: Without Margaret; title: Louisa May Alcott returns; title: Louisa in Boston; title: Concord again; title: Walden, Walden; title: Thoreau now; title: Leaving Walden; title: The birth and death of Margaret Fuller; title: Shipwreck; title: The Hawthornes' return to Concord; title: President Frank; title: Bayonets and bullets; title: Local martyr; title: The death of Thoreau; title: Louisa in Washington, D.C.; title: Return and illness; title: Hawthorne leaves Concord; title: Death; title: Little Women; title: Emerson and the fire; title: Concord, today