... Alcotts "moved to Boston, Massachusetts where her father pursued his teaching career by setting up the Temple School" (Durbin). Six years later the family moved to Concord where Ralph Waldo Emerson, a close friend to the family, helped them to set up residence. They named their house the Hosmer Cottage. Louisa liked the atmosphere in Concord and divided her time between taking ... nature walks with Henry David Thoreau and acting out plays with her sisters which she had written. In 1843, the Alcott family took part in an experimental communal village called Fruitlands. ... Louisa's fath...

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