Notable people in Alcott’s circle

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

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Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Sr., William James, Henry James, William Ellery Channing, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lydia Maria Child, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, Dorothea Dix

Transcendentalist Philosophers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, Bronson Alcott

Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Rev. Theodore Parker, Rev. Samuel May, John Brown