Transcendentalist educator, publisher, and reform intellectual whose institutional work helped give the movement a public infrastructure. In Boston she ran the West Street Bookshop, hosted Margaret Fuller's 'Conversations,' and published key Transcendentalist ventures including The Dial and Æsthetic Papers. In the early 1830s she taught alongside Bronson Alcott at his Boston Temple School, helping run lessons and documenting its methods and classroom dialogue. Afterward she continued teaching through her own schools and classes in Boston.
Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Library), Thoreau (see Thoreau's Reading & Library) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)
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Full title: Record of a school: exemplifying the general principles of spiritual culture
The Dial's edition: Boston, 1835
Documentation of Bronson Alcott's Temple School experiment, where education meant drawing out the soul's latent knowledge rather than imposing external facts—a founding document of progressive education.
Read by Thoreau (see Thoreau's Reading), Thoreau (see Thoreau's Library) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)
