The Alcotts were a famous yet flawed family who firmly believed in the power of unconditional love, personal agency, and social justice. Discover the many ways in which they impacted …

Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. During …

Bronson Alcott was a brilliant philosopher and educator, but a dismal provider. The Alcotts lived near fellow Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau whose …

Mar 1, 2018 · Orchard House is the family home of the Alcotts. Notably, the nineteenth-century author Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women here in 1868. Literary traditions ran through the …

Mar 28, 2025 · Thanks in part to this bipartisan program (initiated by Hillary Rodham Clinton), the house—once sinking unevenly into the ground with near-collapsing walls—was saved and …

Nov 26, 2025 · The Alcotts were a nomadic family who moved more than 20 times in three decades and lived in Concord twice before making the community their permanent home in 1857.

After Fruitlands failed seven months later in January 1844, the Alcotts moved to Still River, just outside of Concord. It is easy to find evidence of Louisa’s Transcendentalist upbringing in her …