Transcendentalism

Alongside Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, Amos Bronson Alcott was one of the New England Transcendentalists. A spiritual and inspirational figure, Alcott’s Transcendentalist views on education, social reform, women’s rights, abolition, and vegetarian lifestyle were published in a number of essays, journals, letters, poems, and books.

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curator: Jason Anfinsen