LOUISA MAY ALCOTT — Katharine Anthony—Knopf ($3). When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for ...

This element of the novel is heavily influenced by the author’s own childhood. Louisa May Alcott grew up in Concord and Boston with her three sisters and eccentric parents. Their father Bronson ...