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The Alcotts and Resilience
July 14 - 18, 2024
LITTLE WOMEN, Chapter XLIV
Louisa May Alcott and her family were no strangers to adversity.
According to eminent Alcott scholar/biographer Madeleine Stern, Miss Alcott was unaware of how dire her family’s situation was until she reached young adulthood when, in her journal, she declared herself “poor as poverty but bound to make things go,” and believed that “afflictions were the best teachers . . .”
Living in a time fraught with social and political upheaval, the Alcotts remained true to their ideals, and were not only active participants in the Underground Railroad and anti-slavery movement, but also champions of woman’s rights and suffrage, education, child labor, and dress reforms, and other controversial issues of their day. Independent by nature, Louisa May Alcott was determined to help her family thrive, gaining success through her own hard work and perseverance as she joined her family in fighting injustice. Taking inspiration from such notable friends and mentors as Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, and Henry David Thoreau, among many others, Miss Alcott carved a path for herself through a world that, although often discouraging, could not prevent her from pursuing—and attaining—her dreams.
Please email a one-paragraph presentation summary along with a brief biography to Executive Director Jan Turnquist & Director of Education Lis Adams by March 31st
Please note that the 2024 Summer Conversational Series is planned as a hybrid gathering, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations and attendance; please consult our website for event updates and registration details after May 1, 2024
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
"Arrival of a Party at League Island" (near Philadelphia, 1856) by John Osler in William Still's The Underground Railroad (1872)
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
"Mrs. Woodhull Asserting Her Right to Vote" by H. Balling, Harper's Weekly engraver,
November 25, 1871
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