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casement. 1. Window-frame with hinged or pivoted opening-
lights or
sashes hung from a vertical member of the fixed frame.
2. Casemate, or wide hollow moulding, such as in late-
Gothic jambs or
bundle-piers, not exceeding a quarter-round.
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A sensitive exploration of philosopher Bronson Alcott and daughter Louisa May, opposites in temperament yet united in their ideals and regard for each other
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...November 1799, when Bronson Alcott was born in a Connecticut...century's end, with Bronson's death in Boston in...In the course of the Alcott story we reside in Boston...abolition movement raging and Bronson playing an active role...
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Making a big man of Bronson Alcott Novel rescues Louisa May's father from his idealism
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...century American idealism, Bronson Alcott is the dark matter that exercises...he left behind, Brooks rescues Alcott from his best-known published...That work involved imagining Bronson Alcott as a Yankee chaplain named Mr...
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Notes of conversations, 1848-1875; Amos Bronson Alcott.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 509 words
; 9780838641187 Notes of conversations, 1848-1875; Amos Bronson Alcott. Alcott, Amos Bronson. Ed. by Karen English. Fairleigh Dickinson U.P. 2007 286 pages $55.00 Hardcover PS1013 Alcott...
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"Work with a Purpose": Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl and the American Work Ethic.(Louisa May Alcott)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...perspective on work. I Alcott's interest in educating...While single, her father Bronson Alcott moved from being a Yankee...the freedom granted by Bronson and Abigail's parenting...was simply prudent. Alcott had seen how her mother...
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Alcott study recaptured
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/17/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...room most recently transformed is Bronson Alcott's study. Although Louisa would...The usual picture of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) is of a certifiably...French's first art teacher. Bronson Alcott had also been a friend and admirer...
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Alcott's Darker Side // Author's Life Wasn't Entirely Sweetness and Light
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/29/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...girls. They were also very poor, partly because Alcott's father, Bronson, was more interested in thinking deep thoughts and saving the world than making money. Bronson Alcott was a star in the intellectual universe of Concord...
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The Alcott of Aquarius - Articulating a practical Christianity, Louisa May Alcott examined the struggles and triumphs of young girls and revolutionized the writing of children's books.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: World and I; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Transcendentalist philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott (1799--1888). Though...highly controversial. Bronson married Abigail ("Abba") May Alcott (1800--77), a descendant...Their first child was Anna Bronson Alcott (1831--93). Louisa...
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An Alcott story's surprise ending A school principal fulfills author's wish when he sells lost tale for millions
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/12/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Concordians; he said he had a great Bronson Alcott letter." To Bicknell's surprise...of all Alcotts at that moment, Bronson's letter was in defense of the...avatar, a re-creation, of A. Bronson Alcott, liberal vegetarian Buddhist...
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Louisa May Alcott: a November birthday.(LIttle Women)(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Child Life; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Christmas this year without any presents." Mrs. F. Alcott Pratt, the wife of "Demi," was in the audience, and in the play were two of the Alcott descendants: Bronson Alcott Pratt, who took the part of "Mr. March," his...
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An Alcott family tradition.(Working for Change)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...society. BEYOND THE ABCs Bronson Alcott's Temple School opened in September 1834. Bronson's teaching stressed critical...many vegetarians today, Bronson felt animal foods were...spiritual growth. Thus, the Alcott family stopped eating meat...
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Amos Bronson Alcott Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the most brilliant and visionary American...also the most extreme of the New England transcendentalists. Bronson Alcott was born near Wolcott, Conn., on Nov. 29, 1799. His was...
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Alcott, Bronson (1799-1888)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Alcott, Bronson (1799-1888) Born November 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Connecticut, Amos Bronson Alcott (known as Bronson) was an educator...Dahlstrand, Frederick C. 1982. Amos Bronson Alcott, an Intellectual Biography. Rutherford...
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Bronson Alcott
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bronson Alcott , 1799-1888, American educational...b. near Wolcott, Conn., as Amos Bronson Alcox. His meager formal education was...Cameron, Transcendental Curriculum, or Bronson Alcott's Library (1984); biographies by...
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Alcott, (Amos) Bronson
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Alcott, [Amos] Bronson (1799–1888), born in...summed up in the term Personalism. Alcott was an extreme Transcendentalist , yet...and benevolent personality. In 1835 Alcott's assistant at the Temple School...
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Little Women and Louisa May Alcott
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...her own family. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a well-known transcendentalist...career. Before she began writing, Alcott was the subject of a book of observations by her father. In 1831 Bronson Alcott began a journal in which he recorded...
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