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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
John Matteson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Eden’s Outcasts and the Ann M. Sperber Prize for The Lives of Margaret Fuller. A Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he lives in the Bronx.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix Prologue: Disgrace 3 Beginnings 13 A Birthday in Germantown 39 The Temple School 55 "Orpheus at the Plough" 86 The Sowing of the Seeds 116 First Fruits 134 Lost Illusions 150 Father and Daughter 165 Destitution 196 Orchard House 233 War 260 Shadows and Sunlight 285 Journeys East and West 308 Miracles 334 "The Wise and Beautiful Truths of the Father" 355 "Come Up with Me" 400 Notes 429 Bibliography 465 Index 471