young man, once writing to his mother that he was "still at my old trade—hoping." Alcott held his principles above his and his family's well-being. Shortly before his marriage, for example, his future father-in-law Colonel Joseph May helped him find a job teaching at a school in Boston run by the Society of Free Enquirers, followers of Robert Owen, for a lucrative $1,000 to $1,200 annual salary. He refused it because he did not agree with their beliefs, writing, "I shall have nothing to do with them." From the other perspective, the Alcotts created an environment which produced two famous daughters in different fields in a time when women were not commonly encouraged to have independent careers. Works Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction (1830) The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836) Conversations with Children on the Gospels (Volume I, 1836) Conversations with Children on the Gospels (Volume II, 1837) Tablets (1868) Concord Days (1872) Table-Talk (1877) New Connecticut: An Autobiographical Poem (1887; first edition privately printed in 1882) Sonnets and Canzonets (1882) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher and Seer: An Estimate of His Character and Genius in Prose and Verse (1882) The Journals of Bronson Alcott (1966) References Notes Sources External links Amos Bronson Alcott Network Alcott biography on American Transcendentalism Web Alcott at Perspectives in American Literature Bronson Alcott: A glimpse at our vegetarian heritage, by Karen Iacobbo Guide to Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott at Houghton Library, Harvard University Guide to Amos Bronson Alcott papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University 1799 births 1888 deaths 19th-century American educators 19th-century American philosophers Alcott family Abolitionists from Boston American people of English descent Philosophers from Connecticut Philosophers from Massachusetts Schoolteachers from Massachusetts American tax resisters American veganism activists American women's rights activists Feminist philosophers Founders of utopian communities Male feminists Massachusetts Republicans Members of the Transcendental Club People from Concord, Massachusetts People from Harvard, Massachusetts People from Wolcott, Connecticut Sonneteers Tea critics Underground Railroad people