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

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

John Matteson

497 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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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 w...

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