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House of the Alcotts' spirits

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19931111
Author:Margo Miller, Globe Staff

CONCORD -- There are grander houses here, but few more appealing than the homestead Bronson Alcott bought in 1857 and named Orchard House. If houses can be said to nurture talent, and Alcott passionately believed they could, then it was destined that Louisa May Alcott would write "Little Women" here.

Louisa was not Alcott's favorite of his four daughters. The favorite was May, the youngest, blond and serene like her father, who would become one of the first American women to study art in Europe. May was tall, like her sisters and father, a fact that helps explain why the Alcott house looks ...

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