Alcott herself was in a somewhat distressed condition too, as she reported in her private diary. The utopian experiment soon failed, however, leaving the family on the brink of poverty. While at Fruitlands, the family embarked on an agrarian lifestyle by planting fruit and vegetables.
On June 1st, 1843 the Alcott family set off for Harvard, Massachusetts, and established an agrarian commune there, called Fruitlands. Bronson’s transcendental philosophy dictated the family’s next move.
Alcott therefore became involved in an environment of progressive thinking in early childhood.
Transcendentalism was a movement that had developed in opposition to the idea that society was corrupting the behavior of people and was in need of reform. While at Boston, Bronson had also become involved in The Transcendental club’s meetings and became acquainted with Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), among others. Parts of her childhood were spent in Boston, where her father had founded Temple School, thus applying his radical teaching principles. As a child Alcott spent much time travelling due to her father’s idealist principles. She was the second of four daughters of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), an autodidact philosopher, abolitionist and teacher, and Abigail May (1800-1877), a descendant of a noted Bostonian family. One of the best-selling authors of the nineteenth-century, Alcott experimented with various forms of writing, particularly the domestic novel, war tales, temperance fiction and the thriller.Īlcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on November 29th, 1832. She also produced twenty-eight books including poems, novels and collections of short stories. Best known as an author of juvenile literature, Louisa May Alcott had a prolific career with more than three hundred stories and articles in periodicals being published.
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