Dickinson, Austin, 269n
Dickinson, Emily, 150, 269n
Dickinson, Susan, 269n
Dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grand Jatte, Un (Seurat), 245
Disraeli, Benjamin, 189
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 142, 159
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 197, 228–29
Dodge’s Literary Museum, 107
Douglass, Frederick, 179
Dovecote Cottage, 37, 205, 213
Dred Scott decision (1857), 126
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 245
Drum-Taps (Whitman), 151
Dyne, Madame, 186
Eddy, Mary Baker, 245–48
Eden’s Outcast (Matteson), 72, 112–13, 171
Edwards, Jonathan, 10 Eight Cousins (L. M. Alcott), 210
Elbert, Sarah, 169
Elliott, James, 176, 190
Elliott, Thames & Talbot, 190
Emancipation Proclamation, 158
Emerson, Edward, 84, 143, 159
Emerson, Ellen, 41, 46, 113, 241
Emerson, Ellen Tucker, 34–35
Emerson, Lydia Jackson “Lidian,” 35, 45, 124
Emerson, Mary Moody, 34, 53
Emerson, Ralph Waldo:
as abolitionist, 40–41, 43, 127, 128
background of, 34–36, 42
Bronson Alcott’s relationship with, 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 45, 48, 49, 50, 53–56, 63, 66, 71, 73, 79, 110, 115, 121–22
in Concord, 1, 19, 24, 25, 33, 34, 36, 40–41, 42, 76, 102
death of, 241
as Dial editor, 44
essays of, xiv, 2, 131
in Europe, 35
family of, 1, 34–35, 45, 53, 124
finances of, 35, 77
first marriage of, 34–35
health of, 172, 241
lectures by, 77
LMA’s relationship with, 3, 45, 52, 53, 80, 83–84, 92, 121–22, 125, 130, 131, 139, 140, 159, 168, 170, 202, 236
as minister, 34, 35
personality of, 53, 102, 173
reputation of, x, 34, 35, 77
second marriage of, 35, 45, 124
senility of, 172
as Transcendentalist, 16, 22
Whitman’s relationship with, 150
writings of, xiv, 40, 44, 108, 110, 131
Emerson, Waldo, 53
Emerson, William, 44
Emerson house, 79, 84, 111
Engels, Friedrich, 89 Essays, First Series (Emerson), 44 Evelina (Burney), 139
Everett, Abraham (Wood Abram), 65
“Experience” (Emerson), 131
Exploring Life (Watson), 270n
Fairfield, Flora (LMA’s pseudonym), 98
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 135, 136
Federal Court, 10, 11, 43, 60, 91
feminism, 56
Fielding, Henry, 139
Fields, Annie, 141, 229
Fields, James T., 110, 111–14, 130, 137, 140, 141, 162–63, 165, 166, 191, 203, 220
Fifth Avenue Theater, 229
Fillmore, Millard, 95
Fitchburg, Mass., 65–66, 67
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 47, 200
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 47
Five Little Peppers, The (Sidney), 104
Flag of Our Union, 202
Flower Fables (L. M. Alcott), 46, 113–14
Flowering of New England, The (Brooks), 27
“Foolish Fashions” (L. M. Alcott), 209
Foord, Sophia, 82, 105
Foote, H. W., 233
Fort Sumter, 131, 132, 133, 136, 142
Fourier, Charles, 58
Fourteenth Amendment, 188
Franco-Prussian War, 215
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, 136–37
Fredericksburg, Battle of, 144–47, 152–55
French, Daniel Chester, 40, 233
French Revolution (Carlyle), 139
French Revolution of 1848, 89
Freud, Sigmund, 201
Frommer’s guides, 226
Frothingham, Octavius, 228
Fruitlands, 60–74, 75, 77, 78, 94, 98, 106, 202
Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 82–83, 95
fugitive slaves, 42, 82–83, 95–97
Fuller, Margaret, 26, 35, 44, 49, 84, 90, 102, 124, 213
Fuller, Thomas, 117
Gardner, Sophia, 82
Garfield, James, 244–45
Garrison, William Lloyd, 19, 31, 42, 50
Geist, Dr., 120, 121
Genth, Anton, 182
Germantown, Pa., 5–6, 13
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 230
Gibbons, James, 230
Giles, Mrs., 237
Gilligan, Carol, 81
Gladstone, William, 189
Glover, George Washington, 246
God, 22, 52, 57, 70, 94, 102, 104, 135, 149, 170, 176, 177, 201
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 27, 98
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 83–84
“Good Daughter, A” (L. M. Alcott), 210
Gospels, 21–22, 29–31, 57
Gould, Jay, 247
Gove, Mary, 56
Graham, Sylvester, 16, 37, 68
Granary Burying Ground, 53
Grand Tour, 214–19
Grant, Ulysses S., 146, 172, 179, 244
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 200
Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman vs. Women, The (Fuller), 90
Greaves, Ian, 171–72
Greaves, James Pierrepont, 51, 55
Greeley, Horace, 134
Greene, Christopher, 50
Greenwood, Francis, 13
Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848), 94–95
Habegger, Alfred, 169
Hale, Edward Everett, 246–47
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (Dodge), 197, 229
Harper & Brothers, 139
Harpers Ferry raid (1859), 41, 128
Harper’s Weekly, 168
“Harriet Tubman” (L. M. Alcott), 210
Harris, William Torrey, 244
Harrison, William Henry, 38–40, 42
Harvard, Mass., 48, 60, 63
Harvard Divinity School, 22
Harvard University, 16, 22, 34, 48, 98, 108
Haskell, Hatty, 250
Hastings, Jonas, 126
Haviland, John, 230
Hawthorne, Julian, 103, 142–44, 159, 204
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 14, 35, 50, 87, 101–4, 106, 110, 116, 122, 124, 125, 126, 129–30, 134, 141, 142–43, 162, 173, 200, 206–7
Hawthorne, Rose, 104
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 14, 18, 23, 24–25, 29, 35, 101–4, 124, 143, 162, 201
Hayes, Rutherford B., 244
Healy, George, 217
Hearth and Home, 209
Hecker, Isaac, 65, 66
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 189
Hepburn, Katharine, xii Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 36, 50, 127, 150, 168, 204
Hillside House (Wayside House), xii, xiv, 79–88, 103–6, 116, 122
Hirsch, Edward, 201
Hirschhorn, Norbert, 171–72
Hirshfield, Jane, 201
Hoar, John, 115
Hodson, W. S. R., 139
Holland, D. G., 229
Holley, Salley, 229
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 16, 195, 266n
homeopathy, 97, 151–52, 205, 210–11, 243
“Hope’s Debut” (L. M. Alcott), 190
Hosmer, Edmund, 33, 77, 79, 85
Hosmer, Lydia, 37
Hosmer Cottage, 33–34, 37–38, 44–48, 54–61, 64
Hospital Sketches (L. M. Alcott), 2, 153, 162, 165, 174, 175–76, 198, 223
Houghton Library, 48, 108, 265n
House of Refuge for Delinquent Boys and Girls, 229–30
Howe, Julia Ward, 212, 249
“How I Went Out to Service” (L. M. Alcott), 109, 111–14
Hygienic Cook-Book (Jones), 228
immigration, 91–92, 153–54, 209, 266n
Indian Wars, 38–39, 41–42
individua
lism, 70, 71, 88, 169–70
Industrial Revolution, 67, 76–77, 91, 94, 106
Inheritance, The (L. M. Alcott), 93–94
“In the Garrett” (L. M. Alcott), 202
“In the Tower” (L. M. Alcott), 210
Intimations of Immortality (Wordsworth), 7
Iron Waters of Schwalbach, The (Genth), 182
Irwin, Frank, 151
Isabella, Queen of Spain, 215
Jack and Jill (L. M. Alcott), 210
James, Henry, xiv, 2, 36, 50, 162, 168–69, 183–84, 217, 245, 257
James, Henry, Sr., 36
Jamison, Kay Redfield, 171
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 139
Jesus Christ, 6, 21–22, 57, 128
John (fugitive slave), 82
Johnson, Andrew, 178, 179, 188, 196
Johnson, Oliver, 228
Jones, Mattie, 228
Jo’s Boys (L. M. Alcott), 210, 241, 249
Kemble, Fanny, 195
King Philip’s War, 41–42
King’s Chapel, 13, 233
“Kitty’s Cattle Show” (L. M. Alcott), 209–10
Kneeland, Abner, 25
Knickerbocker, 15
Koestler, Arthur, 201
Ku Klux Klan, 196
“Lace Makers, The” (L. M. Alcott), 209
“Lafayette’s Visits” (L. M. Alcott), 209
Lake Léman, 183–84, 185
Lamb, Charles, 174
Lane, Charles, 52–61, 63, 83, 94
Lane, William, 55, 63, 67, 73
Larned, Samuel, 65
Lawrence, Rhoda Ashley Joy, 235, 250, 251, 252
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 150
Lee, Ann, 69
Lee, Robert E., 128, 129, 144–47, 179
Lee & Shepard, 197
Leslie, Frank, 108, 136–37, 141, 145, 162, 175, 190
Leverett Street Jail, 19
Lewis, Dio, 205
Liberty Party, 64
Library of America, 112
Lincoln, Abraham, 127, 131, 132, 134, 136, 144, 158, 176, 177–79
Lind, Jenny, 79, 85, 125
Lister, Joseph, 151
Littlehale, Ednah Dow, 99
Little Men (L. M. Alcott), x, 210, 218, 219, 221–24, 227, 249
Little Women (L. M. Alcott):
Amy March in, ix, xv, 3, 17, 202
autobiography in, ix—x, xiii, xiv—xv, 2–3, 46–48, 62, 84–85, 116–19, 168, 176, 202–3, 224–26, 249
Beth March in, 4, 120, 202, 224
British publication of, 204
as children’s book, 191, 197, 198, 200, 201, 202
critical reception of, 204
family “post office” in, 67, 202
Frederic “Fritz” Bhaer in, 221–22, 225, 226
full title of, 204
Hannah (domestic servant) in, 203
illustrations for, 203, 204
influence of, 169, 179
John Brooke in, 33, 202, 205
Jo March in, ix—x, xiii, xiv—xv, 3, 4, 17, 46–47, 84–85, 118, 124, 168, 187, 202, 203, 204–5, 214, 218, 221–24, 225, 249, 256, 257
Laurie Lawrence in, xiv—xv, 46, 47, 124 187, 202, 204–5, 214
March family in, 202–3, 224, 249
Marmee March in, 5, 17, 202
marriage in, 124–25, 204–5, 214, 225
Meg March in, 3, 33, 202, 205
Mr. March in, 5, 32, 203
Mrs. Kirke’s boardinghouse in, 224–27
narrative of, 4–5, 17, 224
Orchard House as setting of, 117–18, 224, 244
popularity of, 179, 203–8, 209, 256, 257
proofreader for, 204
publication of, 4–5, 191, 192, 197, 198, 201, 203–8, 209
reputation of, 164, 204, 211
royalties from, 203–4, 205, 211
sales of, 204, 205–8, 209, 210, 211–12, 217
second part of, 204–8, 209, 224–26
sequels to, 210, 227, 241, 249
Spread Eagle family newspaper in, 202
style of, 175–76, 191, 197, 198
title of, 5, 204
women as portrayed in, ix—xi, 17
writing of, 1–5, 191–92, 197, 198, 200–204, 223, 225–26
Long Fatal Love Chase, A (L. M. Alcott), 210
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 16, 36, 173, 223
Longstreet, James, 146
Loomis, Mabel, 188, 269n Loring, A. K., 167–68, 176, 219
Lothrop, Daniel, 104
Lothrop, Harriet, 104
Lotos Club, 229
Louisa May Alcott (Stern), 70
Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography (Saxton), 46, 71
Louisburg Square, 240, 244, 250, 252
Louis-Philippe, King of France, 89
“Love and Self-Love” (L. M. Alcott), 130
Lovering, Alice, 126
Lovewell, Richard, 42
Lowell, James Russell, 29, 130
lupus, 172, 251
“Lu Sing” (L. M. Alcott), 252
Lyceum, 42–43
McClellan, George, 144
McDowell, Irwin, 133
Mann, Horace, 14, 17, 36, 78, 103
Mann, Mary Peabody, 14, 17–18, 23–24, 25, 36, 78, 103
March (Brooks), 71
Marmee (Salyer), 69–70
Marshall, Megan, 15
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), 139, 155, 199
Martineau, Harriet, 25, 51
Marx, Karl, 89
“Masked Marriage, The” (L. M. Alcott), 107
Masonic Temple, 111
Massachusetts Historical Society, 167
Massachusetts Review, 169
Matteson, John, 72, 93, 112, 171
May, Charles (LMA’s uncle), 70–71
May, Dorothy Sewall (LMA’s grandmother), 10–11
May, Hannah (LMA’s great-aunt), 50
May, Joseph (LMA’s grandfather), 10–11, 43, 45, 58, 213
May, Samuel (LMA’s uncle), 11, 12, 36, 61, 70, 74, 225
medicine, 52, 97, 151–52, 158–63, 172, 205, 210–11, 243, 251, 266n
Melville, Herman, xiv, 36
Memoranda of a Year (Whitman), 162
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 195
Merry’s Museum, 191, 195, 197, 198, 209, 211
Mexican War, 94–95, 208
Michelangelo, 200
Mill, John Stuart, 189
Milldam, 125–26, 193
Miller, Eli Peck, 228, 229
Miller, Perry, 44
Minkins, Shadrach, 96–97, 127
Minutemen, 40, 79
Mission and Relief Room, 92
“Modern Cinderella; or, The Little Old Shoe, A” (L. M. Alcott), 114
“Modern Mephistopheles, A” (L. M. Alcott), 190, 210
Monet, Claude, 187 “mood pillow,” xiii, 118
Moods (L. M. Alcott), 2, 46, 114, 130–31, 132, 136–37, 140, 163, 164–70, 174–77, 179, 182, 189, 214
More, Thomas, 139
“More People” (L. M. Alcott), 210
Morton, John Maddison, 195
Mott, Lucretia, 90
Mottville, 74–75
Mrs. Abner’s Coffee House, 111
“My Boys” (L. M. Alcott), 184, 187, 269n
“Mysterious Key and What It Opened, The” (L. M. Alcott), 190
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 144
Nation, 204
National Era, 96
National Park Service, U.S., xii, 84, 105, 106
Native Americans, xiv, 41–42, 115, 209
Nature (Emerson), xiv
Naval Engagements (Dance), 195
Neill, A. S., 15
Newall’s boardinghouse, 13
New England, xiv, 49, 64, 66, 73, 84, 87, 95–96, 106, 125, 126, 135, 161, 180, 198, 207, 215–16, 233
New England Conservatory of Music, 188
Newman, Anna B., 245–46, 248
Newsboys’ Lodging House, 231
New Testament, 21–22, 29–31, 57
New York
City, 214, 218, 219, 224–32, 271n
New York Ledger, 196
New York Tribune, 134
New York University, 226, 271n
Nieriker, Ernest (LMA’s brother-in-law), 232, 234–37, 238, 257
Nieriker, Louisa May (“Lulu”) (LMA’s niece), see Rasim, Louisa May Nieriker
Nieriker, (Abigail) May Alcott (LMA’s sister), xiii, 64, 67, 78, 84, 116, 119, 122, 125, 142, 143–44, 160, 166, 189, 191, 195, 202, 203, 205, 210, 214–19, 231, 232, 234–39, 266n
Nieriker, Sophie (LMA’s sister-in-law), 237, 238, 257
Niles, Thomas, 2–5, 111, 165, 191, 192, 197, 198, 201, 203–4, 205, 206–7, 211, 218, 219, 249
North American Review, 168–69
Old Corner Bookstore, 110, 111
Old-Fashioned Girl, An (L. M. Alcott), 211–14, 215, 217
Old Manse, 34, 35, 102
Old North Bridge, 40, 227
Old South Church, 111
Old Testament, 65
Olive Leaf, 97, 202
Oliver Optic series, 197
Orchard House, ix—xiv, 1–5, 85, 104, 115–18, 121, 125–26, 129–30, 141, 165, 193–94, 205, 216, 224, 227, 231, 233, 234–35, 239–40, 244, 255
“Order of In-door Duties,” xiii, 105
Organon of the Healing Art (Hahnemann), 97
“Orphic Sayings” (B. Alcott), 44, 86
“Our Owl” (L. M. Alcott), 209
Owen, Robert, 13
Page, Ann, 65
Palazzo Barberini, 216–19
Palmer, Joseph, 65–66, 74
Parker, Theodore, 50, 111, 189
Parkman, Caroline Hall, 195
Parkman, Francis, 195
Pasteur, Louis, 151, 201
“Pauline’s Passion and Punishment” (L. M. Alcott), 107, 137, 210
Pawtucket Indians, 41–42
Peabody, Elizabeth, 14–18, 21, 22–25, 26, 29, 44, 78, 88, 93, 101–2, 140, 248
Peabody, Mary, 14, 17–18, 23–24, 25, 36, 78, 103
Peabody, Sophia, 14, 18, 23, 24–25, 29, 35, 101–4, 124, 143, 162, 201
Pedlar’s Progress (Shepard), 69
Pension Victoria, 183–85
Pestolazzi, Johann, 12, 51, 140
Peterson’s Magazine, 98
Phillips, Wendell, 42–43, 96, 195
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 139, 199
Pierce, Franklin, 104, 126
Plato, 6, 27, 94, 236, 249
“Playing Lady” (L. M. Alcott), 209
pneumonia, 152, 158, 172 Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 169
Pratt, Anna Alcott (LMA’s sister), xii, 7, 13, 20, 45, 64, 70, 74, 78, 80, 84, 97, 114, 116–17, 122–25, 130, 132, 141, 189, 202, 217, 218, 231, 234, 241, 252–53, 255–56
Pratt, Frederick (LMA’s nephew), 221, 231, 240–41, 242, 248, 251
Pratt, John (LMA’s nephew), 221, 231, 240–41, 242, 248, 251
Pratt, John Bridge (LMA’s brother-in-law), xii, 114, 122–25, 130, 189–90, 202, 217–18, 239
Pratt family, 116–17, 122
Puritans, 22, 25, 92, 111, 216
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