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The Journals of Abigail and Louisa May

Mark Pearce

    Reading the private journals of Abigail Alcott and Louisa May Alcott, wife and daughter, respectively, of Bronson Alcott. Getting a fascinating insight into their lives and the world of the Transcendentalists of Concord. The journals are intensely personal and at times achingly intimate.
    To a large extent, I enjoyed reading the journals of Bronson Alcott far more than those of his wife, Abigail, or his daughter, Louisa May. Bronson’s journals consist of passages like, “Emerson did this . . .” or “Thoreau said that . . .” or “I traveled up to Boston to hear Hawthorne speak . . .” The journals of his wife and daughter mostly consist of passages like, “God, life is hard since Bronson won’t get a job.”
    I find it impossible to read the journals without a certain amount of guilt. Abigail had asked her family to destroy all of her papers after her death, and Louisa May left a note with her own that read, “These journals are kept only for my own reference, and I particularly desire that if I die before I destroy them that they will ALL be BURNED unread or copied by anyone.”
    Instead, their private thoughts were published, packaged, and sold on the open market.
    Personally, I won’t have that problem. Everyone who knows me wants my journals burned.



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