Eden's Outcasts (72 page)

11.
A. B. Alcott, 18 July 1865,
Journals
, 373.

12.
Ibid.

13.
L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 147n.

14.
L. M. Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, 31 July 1865, in
Selected Letters
, 111.

15.
L. M. Alcott, August 1865,
Journals
, 141.

16.
Henry James Jr., “Miss Alcott's
Moods,
” 280–81.

17.
A. B. Alcott, 30 September 1865,
Journals
, 375.

18.
Ruskin fully elaborates his theory of the grotesque in the essay “Grotesque Renaissance,” in
Stones of Venice
,
Complete Works
, XI, 135–95.

19.
A. B. Alcott, 19–21 October 1865,
Journals
, 375.

20.
L. M. Alcott, “Up the Rhine,” “Life in a Pension,” “A Dickens Day.”

21.
Henry James Jr., “Swiss Notes,” in
Collected Travel Writings,
630–31.

22.
Louisa May Alcott, “Life in a Pension,” 2.

23.
Ibid.

24.
Ibid.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Ibid.; L. M. Alcott,
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
, 16.

27.
L. M. Alcott,
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
, 17.

28.
Ibid., 18.

29.
Ibid., 21; L. M. Alcott, “Life in a Pension,” 2.

30.
L. M. Alcott,
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
, 19–20; L. M. Alcott, “Life in a Pension,” 2.

31.
L. M. Alcott, November 1865,
Journals
, 145.

32.
Ibid.

33.
L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 148n.

34.
L. M. Alcott, December 1865,
Journals
, 145.

35.
L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 148n.

36.
L. M. Alcott,
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
, 27.

37.
Ibid.

38.
Ibid.
,
16, 18, 34.

39.
L. M. Alcott, December 1865,
Journals
, 145.

40.
Heilbrun, “Alcott's
Little Women,
” in
Hamlet's Mother
, 141–43.

41.
L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman, 6 January 1869, in
Selected Letters
, 120.

42.
Louisa May Alcott, (Untitled),
Boston Commonwealth,
21 September 1867.

43.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, St. Louis, 20 February 1866, in
Letters
, 385.

44.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, St. Louis, 26 February 1866, in
Letters
, 386.

45.
Dahlstrand,
Amos Bronson Alcott
, 282.

46.
Ibid., 282–83.

47.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Concord, 18 March 1866, in
Letters
, 389–90.

48.
L. M. Alcott, July 1866,
Journals
, 152.

49.
L. M. Alcott, November 1866,
Journals
, 153.

50.
L. M. Alcott, quoting Abigail May Alcott, August 1866,
Journals
, 153.

51.
Bedell,
Alcotts
, 258n.

52.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, St. Louis, 30 November 1866, in
Letters
, 397.

53.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, St. Louis, 3 December 1866, in
Letters
, 398.

54.
L. M. Alcott, January 1867,
Journals
, 157.

55.
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn to Benjamin Lyman, 23 February 1867, in Cameron,
Young Reporter
, 45.

56.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. Frances D. Gage, Concord, 14 April 1867, in
Letters
, 406.

57.
A. B. Alcott to Charles D. B. Mills, Concord, 20 February 1867, in
Letters
, 403.

58.
A. B. Alcott to Mary E. Stearns, Concord, 13 April 1867, in
Letters
, 405.

59.
L. M. Alcott, August 1867,
Journals
, 158.

60.
L. M. Alcott, September 1867,
Journals
, 158.

61.
L. M. Alcott, January 1868,
Journals
, 162.

62.
Ibid.

63.
L. M. Alcott, 7 January 1868,
Journals
, 162.

64.
L. M. Alcott, “Happy Women,” in Stern, ed.,
L. M. Alcott
, 149.

65.
L. M. Alcott, 18 January 1868,
Journals
, 163.

66.
L. M. Alcott, 14 February 1868,
Journals
, 164.

67.
Ibid., 165.

68.
L. M. Alcott, “Happy Women,” in Stern, ed.,
L. M. Alcott
, 146.

69.
Ibid., 147.

70.
Ibid., 148.

71.
Ibid.

72.
L. M. Alcott to Richard Rogers Bowker, 4 October 1877, in
Selected Letters
, 224.

73.
L. M. Alcott, 17 February 1868,
Journals
, 165.

74.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Concord, 19 February 1868, in
Letters
, 427.

75.
L. M. Alcott, May 1868,
Journals
, 165–66.

76.
Ibid., 165.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MIRACLES

1.
Alcott to Miss Churchill, 25 December 1878 (?), in
Selected Letters
, 232.

2.
L. M. Alcott, June 1868,
Journals
, 166.

3.
Stern,
Louisa May Alcott
, 175.

4.
L. M. Alcott, 15 July 1868,
Journals
, 166.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ibid.

7.
L. M. Alcott, 26 August 1868,
Journals
, 166.

8.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 246.

9.
L. M. Alcott, 26 August 1868,
Journals
, 166.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress
, 163–64.

12.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 5.

13.
Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress
, 169.

14.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 510.

15.
Thomas Niles to Louisa May Alcott, Boston, 20 July 1869, in L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
, 423.

16.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 164.

17.
Ibid., 214.

18.
Ibid., 398.

19.
Ibid., 234.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Ibid., 229.

22.
L. M. Alcott, September 1872,
Journals
, 183.

23.
Madeleine Stern, conversation with author, 1 September 2006.

24.
Paludan,
A People's Contest
, 306–7n.

25.
Julian Hawthorne, “The Woman who Wrote
Little Women
,” in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 200–01.

26.
L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 169n.

27.
Elbert,
Hunger for Home
, 169.

28.
L. M. Alcott, 1 November 1868,
Journals
, 167.

29.
L. M. Alcott, 16 November 1868,
Journals
, 167.

30.
L. M. Alcott, 29 November 1868,
Journals
, 167.

31.
L. M. Alcott, 1 November 1868,
Journals
, 167.

32.
L. M. Alcott to Elizabeth Powell, Concord, 20 March 1869, in
Selected Letters
, 125.

33.
L. M. Alcott, 1 November 1868,
Journals
, 167.

34.
L. M. Alcott to Elizabeth Powell, Concord, 20 March 1869, in
Selected Letters,
124–25.

35.
L. M. Alcott to Samuel J. May, Boston, 22 January 1869, in
Selected Letters
, 122.

36.
L. M. Alcott to Thomas Niles, early 1869, in
Selected Letters
, 119.

37.
L. M. Alcott, 1 November 1868,
Journals
, 167; L. M. Alcott to Elizabeth Powell, Con cord, 20 March 1869, in
Selected Letters
, 125.

38.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 154.

39.
Ibid., 510.

40.
Ibid., 515.

41.
Ibid., 491.

42.
Ibid., 7.

43.
Some of the foregoing analysis appeared in Matteson, “An Idea of Order at Concord,” 451–67.

44.
L. M. Alcott, January 1869,
Journals
, 171.

45.
Dahlstrand,
Amos Bronson Alcott
, 290.

46.
A. B. Alcott, 26 July 1871,
Journals
, 422.

47.
A. B. Alcott,
Tablets
, 99.

48.
Ibid.

49.
Ibid., 45.

50.
L. M. Alcott, September 1868,
Journals
, 166.

51.
A. B. Alcott,
Tablets
, 33.

52.
Ibid.
,
50.

53.
Ibid., 46.

54.
Ibid.

55.
Ibid., 89.

56.
Ibid., 90.

57.
Emerson,
Nature,
in
Essays and Lectures
, 7.

58.
A. B. Alcott,
Tablets
, 159.

59.
A. B. Alcott, 26–27 December 1876,
Journals
, 393.

60.
Shepard,
Pedlar's Progress,
501.

61.
A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 472.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “THE WISE AND BEAUTIFUL TRUTHS OF THE FATHER”

1.
A summary of Bronson's tabulations of Louisa's sales may be found in Myerson, “‘Our Children Are Our Best Works,'” 262.

2.
A. B. Alcott, 4 September 1869,
Journals
, 400.

3.
Ibid.

4.
L. M. Alcott, April 1869,
Journals
, 171.