... a lot in her short lived life. She was the second of four daughters who were born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. Her father was a prominent transcendentalist and pioneering educational innovator who "wished to transcend, or rise above, society's problems by creating a community where honesty, sincerity, and unselfishness and all things of the spirit would rule" (Warrick 31). Alcott's mother took ... care of her husband and four children. When Louisa was 2 years old, in 1834, the Alcotts "moved to Boston, Massachusetts where her father pursued his teaching career by setti...

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