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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