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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson

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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

This book won 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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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9780393077575
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Father-daughter relationshipsLouisa May Alcott's lifeTranscendentalism

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  • The Lives of Margaret Fuller

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