Louisa May Alcott and Her Work
Louisa May Alcott was a great writer of her time and is the perfect example of
how mixed messages during the American Renaissance affected the lives of young
women everywhere. In the book Little Women Louisa gives Marmee the appearance
and attitudes of her own mother, Abba Alcott. Her mother once wrote women should
assert their, "right to think, feel, and live individually·be something in
yourself." In contrast, Louisaâs father, Bronson Alcott, felt that Louisa was
more of a challenge because she was willful like her mother and should be taught
to control her impulses. The American Renaissance had a profound effect on
Bronson Alcottâs educational theories and this in turn affected the life and
writingâs of his daughter Louisa May Alcott.
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 to Bronson and Abba Alcott. Abba Alcott was
the daughter of Colonel Joseph May who was a supporter of womenâs rights and
abolition. Louisa was somewhat spirited, and she came by it naturally, so her
father blamed her mother for this. Her father was a transcendentalist, and he
believed that his lighter coloring betokened a deeper spirituality and closer
connection to divinity (Saxton 205). Bronson felt Louisa could not control
herself because she was born with dark hair like her mother. He referred to her
as the "possessed one" "pathetic" and "bound in chains·which she could not
break"(Sanderson 43). This somewhat clashed with his other belief that children
were considered blank slates, or tablulae rasae. This theory simply states that
the mind is in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state befo...
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...ffered her much time to think about schooling
and childrearing. So her book Little Women is almost an autobiographical account
of her own life as well as a critical study of characters and events during the
American Renaissance period.
Works Cited:
Alcott,Louisa May. Little Women. New York: Signet, 1983.
Elbert,Sarah, A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott and Little Women
(Philadelphia: Temple,1984), 86.
Russett, Cynthia Eagle. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood.
Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1989.
Sanderson, Rena. "A Modern Mephistopheles: Louisa May Alcottâs Exorcism of
Patriarchy." American Transcendental Quarterly 5 (1991): 41-55.
Saxton, Martha. Louisa May Alcott:A Modern Biography. New York: Noonday Press,
1995.
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