Educator and reformer, part of the Concord Transcendentalist circle, founder of the short-lived utopian community Fruitlands (1843-1844). Father of the novelist Louisa May Alcott.
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Both part of the Concord Transcendentalist circle; Emerson helped support Alcott financially through recurring hardship.
Source Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
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Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school "The Cheshire Pestalozzi School".
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