- The Fruitlands story is told in the following books and articles: Clara Endicott Sears, Branson Alcott's Fruitlands, with “Transcendental Wild Oats,” by Louisa M. Alcott ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1915 ); Frederick L. H. Willis, Alcott Memoirs (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1915) ; Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Enlish Reformers,” Dial, III (Jan., 1843), 227–241; Frank B. Sanborn, Bronson Alcott at Alcott House, England, and Fruitlands, New England (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1908) ; Charles Lane, “James Pierrepont Greaves,” Dial, III (Jan., 1843), 281–296. James Pierrepont Greaves was an associate of Pestalozzi for ten years in Switzerland. When he returned to England Greaves began a campaign to regenerate British schools by means of the introduction of Pestalozzi's methods, which he promulgated through the Infant School Society, of which he was secretary for many years.
- Clara Endicott Sears, op. cit., p. 43.
- Emerson , “English Reformers ,” p. 239 .
- Ibid. , p. 245 .
- Ibid. , p. 246 .
- Ibid. , p. 246 .
- Sanborn, op. cit., p. 52.
- Sears, op. cit., p. 38.
- Sears, op. cit., p. 84.
- Emerson , “English Reformers ,” p. 154 .
- Sears, op. cit., p. 3.
- Bronson Alcott , Concord Days ( Boston : Roberts Brothers , 1872 ), p. 88 .
- Ibid. , p. 90 – 92 .
- Sears, op. cit., p. 52.
- Concord Days , p. 49 .
- “Fruitlands,” Dial , IV ( July , 1843 ), p. 136 .
- Ibid. , p. 135 .
- Alcott , “Catalogue of Books,” Dial , III ( April , 1843 ), p. 54 .5. In an essay entitled “Books,” included in his Table-Talk volume, Alcott confessed to being “drawn by antiquities. … I value books for their suggestiveness even more than for the information they may contain, works that may be taken in hand and laid aside, read at moments, containing sentences that quicken my thoughts and prompt to following these into relations with life and things.” Alcott, Table-Talk (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877), pp. 6–7.
- “James Pierrepont Greaves,” Dial , III ( Jan ,. 1843 ), p. 295 .
- “Fruitlands,” Dial , IV ( July , 1843 ), p. 136 .
- Dial , III ( Jan ., 1843 ), p. 136 .
- “Fruitlands,” Dial , IV ( July , 1843 ), p. 135 .
- Sears, op. cit., p. 72.
- Ibid. , p. 73 .
- The Harbinger , V ( June 26, 1847 ), p. 46 .
- Sears, op. cit., p. 44.
- Ibid. , pp. 30 – 31 .
- “Brook Farm,” Dial , IV ( Jan. , 1844 ). pp. 356 – 357 .
- Sears, op. cit., p. 122.
- Sanborn, op. cit., p. 22.
- Sears , Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands with “Transcendental Wild Oats ,” p. 150 .
- “Fruitlands,” Dial , IV ( July , 1843 ), p. 135 .
- Sears, op. cit., p. 127.
- Odell Shepard , Pedlar's Progress, the Life of Branson Alcott ( Boston : Little, Brown and Co. , 1937 ), p. 330 .
- Shepard, op. cit., p. 335.
The Educational Forum
Volume 30, 1966 - Issue 2