American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work

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ISBN: 9780743264624
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xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Publisher New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007.
Copyright ©2006

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American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

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American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	A Note to the Reader	p. xiii
	Preface	p. xv
Part 1
1	Concord, Massachusetts	p. 3
2	The Alcotts Arrive for the First Time	p. 7
3	Louisa, Girl Interrupted	p. 12
4	Louisa in Love...Henry David Thoreau	p. 16
5	Sic Vita	p. 20
6	Two Loves	p. 24
7	Ellen Sewall	p. 29
8	Money	p. 32
9	Emerson Pays for Everything	p. 35
10	Two Deaths	p. 39
11	The Curse of Salem	p. 42
12	Hawthorne Emerges	p. 46
13	The Execution	p. 49
14	Another Triangle	p. 53
Part 2
15	Bronson Alcott, Peddler Turned Pedant	p. 59
16	Fruitlands	p. 63
17	Sex	p. 68
18	Thoreau Goes to New York City	p. 71
19	Wall of Fire	p. 74
20	Walden Pond	p. 78
21	Margaret Fuller, the Sexy Muse	p. 81
22	Rome	p. 85
23	The Margaret Ghost	p. 89
24	Hawthorne Leaves Salem Forever	p. 91
25	Stockbridge	p. 95
26	Melville	p. 97
27	The Railroad	p. 101
28	Community	p. 104
29	Without Margaret	p. 106
Part 3
30	Louisa May Alcott Returns	p. 113
31	Louisa in Boston	p. 116
32	Concord Again	p. 120
33	Walden, Walden	p. 123
34	Thoreau Now	p. 127
35	Leaving Walden	p. 130
36	The Birth and Death of Margaret Fuller	p. 135
37	Shipwreck	p. 139
38	The Hawthornes' Return to Concord	p. 144
39	President Frank	p. 149
40	Bayonets and Bullets	p. 154
41	Local Martyr	p. 159
Part 4
42	The Death of Thoreau	p. 167
43	Louisa in Washington, D.C.	p. 170
44	Return and Illness	p. 175
45	Hawthorne Leaves Concord	p. 181
46	Death	p. 185
47	Little Women	p. 188
48	Emerson and the Fire	p. 193
	Concord, Today	p. 198
	Chronology	p. 201
	Acknowledgments	p. 204
	Notes	p. 206
	Bibliography	p. 211
	Index	p. 215

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