Louisa May Alcott

by Susan Cheever

  Quakers, 90, 154

  Quincy, Josiah, 26

  railroads, 67, 76–77, 85, 106, 125, 208, 266n

  Randall’s Island, 229–30, 271n

  Raphael, 189

  Rasim, Emil, 255

  Rasim, Louisa May Nieriker (“Lulu”) (LMA’s niece), 236–43, 244, 248, 250, 251, 252, 253, 255

  Recollections (L. M. Alcott), 88

  Reconstruction, 180, 187–88

  Record of a School (Peabody), 14–15, 21, 22, 51

  Redpath, James, 162, 165, 219

  Reed, Alice, 119

  Richardson, James, 99–101, 109, 113, 147, 180

  Richardson, Robert, 87

  Richardson, Samuel, 139

  Ripley, Ezra, 34

  Ripley, George, 44, 50, 65, 102

  Ristori, Adelaide, 186

  “Rival Painters, The” (L. M. Alcott), 107

  Roberts, J. M., 209

  Roberts, Lewis A., 2, 203

  Roberts Brothers Publishing Co., 2, 162, 191, 197, 203, 206, 211, 217

  Robinson, Susan, 31–32

  Ropes, Hannah, 142, 152, 158, 159, 253

  Rose in Bloom (L. M. Alcott), 210

  Rossini, Gioachino, 111

  Rostenberg, Leona, 108, 265n

  Routledge, George, 189

  Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 219

  Ruskin, John, 233

  Ryder, Winona, xii

  Salem, Mass., 24, 101, 103

  Salem Street School, 12

  Salem Witch Trials, 24

  Salyer, Sandford, 69–70

  Sanborn, Franklin, 40–41, 122, 127, 168, 191

  Savage, Mrs. James, 87

  Saxton, Martha, 46, 71, 110–11, 113, 162, 171, 188, 257, 269n, 270n

  scarlet fever, 53, 119–20, 266n

  Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne),

  103, 110, 200 Science and Health, 246

  Scott, Walter, 6, 184

  Secret Six, 127

  Seneca Falls convention (1848), xiv, 90

  Seurat, Georges, 245

  Sewall, Samuel, 79, 103, 115, 205

  Sewall, Samuel (ancestor), 24, 232

  Sewall, Thomas, 126

  Shakers, 69, 73

  Shakespeare, William, 6, 93, 108, 176, 195

  Shawl-Straps (L. M. Alcott), 227

  Shepard, Odell, 9, 12, 69, 70

  Sheppard, Elizabeth-Sara, 139

  Sherman, William T., 136

  Showalter, Elaine, 112

  Sidney, Margaret, 104

  Sims, Thomas, 96–97

  “sky parlor,” 104, 105, 129–30

  slavery, 19, 25, 31–32, 37–38, 40–43, 82–83, 94–97, 126–29

  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 122, 233

  Socrates, 27, 49, 61

  Sontag, Henriette, 111, 114

  Sorosis Club, 227, 229

  Speed, James, 178

  Stanton, Edwin, 178

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 90

  Staples, Sam, 57

  Stern, Madeleine, 70, 108, 171, 211, 252, 265n

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 196

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 245

  Stiles, Robert, 149

  Still River, Mass., 63, 70, 98

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 96, 107, 127

  Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply (M. Alcott), 233

  Study in Scarlet, A (Conan

  Doyle), 245

  suffrage, women’s, 89, 90, 236, 245

  Suhre, John, 156–57

  Summerhill (Neill), 15

  Sumner, Charles, 126–27

  “Sunlight” (L. M. Alcott), 98

  Swedenborg Chapel, 16

  Swedish Movement Cure, 228

  “Sylvester” (L. M. Alcott), 252

  Tablets (B. Alcott), 2, 192, 198, 201, 205

  “Taming a Tartar” (L. M. Alcott), 190

  Taylor, Zachary, 95

  Teacher’s Institute, 78

  temperance movement, 174, 205

  Temple School, 6–7, 10, 14–15, 21–32, 37, 43, 53, 55, 57, 61, 79, 101, 102, 107, 218, 222

  Terry, Ellen, 199

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 110

  This Republic of Suffering (Faust), 135, 136

  Thoreau, Cynthia, 38

  Thoreau, Henry David:

  as abolitionist, 43, 83, 127, 128

  biographies of 82, 35, 36–37, 38, 87

  Bronson Alcott’s relationship with, 86, 87, 115, 116, 121, 122, 132, 150–51

  Concord house of, 231, 239, 240, 250

  death of, 3, 134, 161

  Emerson’s relationship with, 85, 87

  health of, 132

  journals of, 86

  LMA’s relationship with, xiv, 3, 45, 54, 80, 85–87, 92, 122, 132, 161–62, 204

  in Minnesota, 132

  as naturalist, 86

  personality of, 46, 52–53, 172, 173

  sexuality of, 124, 172

  as tax protester, 57

  as Transcendentalist, 16

  as tutor, xiv

  at Walden Pond, xi, 76, 82, 85–86, 161

  Whitman visited by, 150–51

  writings of, 44, 86, 108, 110

  Thoreau, John, 38, 52–53

  “Thoreau’s Flute” (L. M. Alcott), 161–62

  “Thrice Tempted” (L. M. Alcott), 190

  Ticknor, Howard, 116, 166, 190

  Ticknor & Fields, 110, 166

  Tippecanoe, Battle of, 38

  Tippecanoe Club, 39

  Todd, David, 269n

  Todd, Mabel Loomis, 188, 269n

  Town and Country Club, 93

  Transcendentalism, 16, 22, 44, 90, 102, 131, 166, 170

  Transcendental Wild Oats (L. M. Alcott), 63, 65, 66, 72–73

  Trumbull, Jonathan, 9

  Tubman, Harriet, 228

  Turner, J. M. W., 233

  Turnquist, Jan, xi

  Twain, Mark, 247

  Twelve Years of a Soldier’s Life in India (Hodson), 139

  Two Buzzards, The (Morton), 195

  Tyler, John, 39–40

  Tyler, Moses Coit, 195

  typhoid, 152, 158, 172

  “Uncle Smiley’s Boys” (L. M. Alcott), 210

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 96, 107, 127

  “Uncle Tom’s Shipwreck” (L. M. Alcott), 209

  Underground Railroad, 42, 78

  Under the Lilacs (L. M. Alcott), 210

  Union Hotel Hospital, 2, 142–59, 165, 175–76, 210

  Van Buren, Martin, 38, 42

  Vassar College, 227

  vegetarianism, 8, 16, 37, 39, 57, 65, 66, 155, 174

  Villa Valrosa, 186

  “V.V.; or, Plots and Counterplots” (L. M. Alcott), 176

  Walden (Thoreau), xiv, 86

  Walden Pond, xi, xiv, 3, 76, 77, 79, 82, 85–86, 104, 161

  Wampanoag Indians, 115

  Warren, Robert Penn, 128

  Warren Street Chapel, 140

  Washington, George, 9

  Washington, George (fugitive slave), 96

  Watch and Ward (James), 169

  Watson, Tom, 201, 270n

  Wayside House (Hillside House), xii, xiv, 79–88, 103–6, 116, 122

  Webster, Daniel, 39, 42

  Weld, Anna Minot, 180–87, 188, 189, 190, 205, 269n

  Weld, George, 180, 183, 185

  Weld, William Fletcher, 180, 190

  Wells, Lizzie, 240

  Wesselhoeft, Conrad, 249

  West Point Military Academy, 132, 144, 147

  “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Whitman), 151

  Whigs, 38–39

  Whitman, Alf, 47, 108, 128, 190, 202, 252

  Whitman, George, 149, 151

  Whitman, Walt, 36, 149–51, 162, 229, 241

  Whitney, Samuel, 79

  Wikipedia, 226

  Wilkinson, Charlotte, 225

  Willis, Llewellyn, 74, 98

  Willis family, 111, 114, 141

  Winslow, John, 154, 158, 160

  Wisniewski, Ladislas (“Laddie”), 184–88, 202, 269n
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  Woman’s Journal, 236

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  About the Author

  Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including American Bloomsbury, the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark (about her father John Cheever), and five novels. She has written for many publications, including the New Yorker and the New York Times; her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Boston Globe Winship Medal, and an Associated Press Award. She is on the faculty of the Bennington College MFA Program, has taught at Yale University and at the New School, serves as a director of the Yaddo Corporation, and is a member of the Authors Guild Council. Cheever lives in New York City with her family. To learn more, visit www.susancheever.com.