Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, author, and philosopher. Fueled by his innovative teaching methods and progressive theories, Alcott started number of schools across Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts before opening Temple School, his most successful teaching experiment, in Boston in 1834. Alongside Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott was one of the pioneers of American Transcendentalism. In 1843 he co-founded a Utopian farm based on transcendentalist, pacifist, and vegetarian principles named Fruitlands in Harvard, Massachusetts. An advocate for animal rights, Alcott's staunch vegetarian principles and philosophy on the vegetable diet helped plant the seed for Veganism. Bronson Alcott's wife Abigail was also a reformist who fought for suffrage, women's rights, and was one of Boston's first social workers. Louisa May Alcott, the second Bronson's four daughters, is the author of the novel Little Women. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and seer

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A biography about American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of many published works by A. Bronson Alcott. He published everything from…

Vegetarian in print

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The Late A. Bronson Alcott

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Alcott and Emerson

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