Summer Conversational Series Adult & Teacher Education

 Their Transcendentalist friends—Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Peabody, and others—also embraced creative thinking in forging their own paths and influencing others to expand their horizons.

Louisa May Alcott’s impulse to write “in a vortex” and ignore critics who advised her to “stick to your teaching, you can’t write” is evidence that her creative spirit could not be quelled.

 Their Transcendentalist friends—Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Peabody, and others—also embraced creative thinking in forging their own paths and influencing others to expand their horizons.

Louisa May Alcott’s impulse to write “in a vortex” and ignore critics who advised her to “stick to your teaching, you can’t write” is evidence that her creative spirit could not be quelled.