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Buckle up for a real ride. We're taking you on an Alcott odyssey. First, we talk about the latest film adaptation of Little Women and ponder questions like: why didn't Greta Gerwig win ....everything? Is Thoreau a precursor to tiny house builders everywhere? We play a spirited game of scam or real Bronson Alcott business endeavor, and perhaps most importantly, report on recent communications by Comrade Spears   Original air date: March 31, 2020

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1627 Birth of John Ray, English naturalist and writer. In 1660, he published a catalog of Cambridge plants. John developed his own system for classifying plants based on their observed similarities and differences. So he was clearly thinking about ways to distinguish one plant from another. And in his book, History of Plants, John was the first scientist to use the terms petal and pollen. John also wrote a Collection of English Proverbs. In one for summer, John wrote: If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.   1799 Birth of Amos Bronson Alcott, American teacher, writer, Transcendentalist and reformer. In most aspects of his life, Amos was ahead of his time. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights. He also advocated a plant-based diet.  Amos once wrote, Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures, plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. In 1830, Amos married pretty Abigail May, and together they had four daughters; the second-oldest was Louisa May, born on this day in 1832.   1832 Birth of Louisa May Alcott, American writer, and poet.  She grew up in the company of her parents' friends and fellow Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In 1868, she wrote Little Women. In it, she wrote, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally... Louisa could be witty. She once wrote, Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.   1978 Death of Edward C. Hummel, American plantsman and hybridizer. Edward and his wife Minnie ran Hummel's Exotic Gardens of southern California for 43 years. They specialized in cacti, succulents, bromeliads ("brow·mee·lee·ads"), and orchids.  In 1935, Edward and Minnie were featured in a Quaker State Motor Oil advertisement. The young Hummel family is in their home cactus garden. Edward is examining a cactus specimen while his daughter Marquetta and son Edward gather around. Mother Minnie is standing behind them, looking on. The ad garnered plenty of attention, and soon Edward was fielding requests from American gardeners for more information about his cactus garden. The letters gave Edward and Minnie the idea to start a mail-order business for their plants. In 1943, during WWII, Edward published Hummel's Victory Picture Book. The cover featured a photo of two 6-foot-tall Barrel cacti at the base, leaning away from each other at the top in a perfect V formation for victory. The book was a smash hit, and subsequent editions were quickly put together. In the first edition, Edward wrote a note to his customers in the forward. Perhaps you will wonder at receiving this free picture book which contains no prices of plants. If you enjoy a few minutes of interest and relaxation in looking it over, it will have fulfilled its obvious purpose. If your interest and curiosity are stirred to the point that you write us for further information, it will have fulfilled its hidden purpose. After the War, the fumes from LAX drove the Hummels to find a new home for their nursery. They settled in Carlsbad and purchased an existing nursery after the founder Dr. Robert W. Poindexter, died unexpectedly. The nursery was a perfect fit. Robert Poindexter shared the Hummel's passion for cacti and succulents. Robert's son John finalized the sale. Edward was especially interested in propagating and selling drought-resistant plants in his nursery. He won many awards for his plants and was primarily known for his work with Bromeliads ("brow·mee·lee·ads").   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Flower Flash by Lewis Miller This book came out in 2021, and Lewis Miller is a celebrated floral designer and "Flower Bandit." The publisher writes,  Before dawn one morning in October 2016, renowned New York-based floral designer Lewis Miller stealthily arranged hundreds of brightly colored dahlias, carnations, and mums into a psychedelic halo around the John Lennon memorial in Central Park. The spontaneous floral installation was Miller's gift to the city an effort to spark joy during a difficult time. Nearly five years and more than ninety Flower Flashes later, these elaborate flower bombs - bursts of jubilant blooms in trash cans, over bus canopies, on construction sites and traffic medians - have brought moments of delight and wonder to countless New Yorkers and flower lovers everywhere, and earned Miller a following of dedicated fans and the nickname the "Flower Bandit." After New York City entered lockdown, Miller doubled down, creating Flower Flashes outside hospitals to express gratitude to frontline health workers and throughout the city to raise spirits. This gorgeous and poignant visual diary traces the phenomenon from the first, spontaneous Flower Flash to the even more profound installations of the pandemic through a kaleidoscopic collage of photos documenting the Flower Flashes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, Miller's inspiration material, fan contributions, and more.   Lewis begins his story this way. When pressed to define my own vision, a few words come to mind: Abundance. Contrast. Joy. Folly. Energy. Flowers are a medium like no other. They exist to be beautiful, to attract butterflies and bees. It's a simple but astounding life's mission. Yet all too often this profound essence is suffocated under the weight of other meaning. We humans assign arbitrary significance to almost everything and in the process snuff out the true purpose of that thing; flowers are not spared this imposition. Gladiolas can be dismissed as ghastly, lilies as rancid, and carnations as tacky. Such horrible words to describe flowers, and it doesn't stop there. The cacophony of derogatory remarks is endless: cheap, garish, weedy, "too country," gaudy, pretentious ... It can make the most ambitious flower lover hesitant to create anything for fear of damnation from the Taste Gods. The Flower Flash is my antidote to all that! Flower Flashes celebrate all the good that flowers embody and have to offer us mortals. In a Flash, every flower benefits equally from a sort of floral democracy and like most democracies, the Flash's success is largely dependent on the hardworking, unsung flowers that support the more delicate and fashionable blooms. Precious sweet peas share company with unloved carnations, chrysanthemums make nice with English garden roses. And it makes sense that this is the recipe for a successful Flash, because New York City, the birthplace of these random acts of beauty, is built on the same principle. Like a true Flower Flash, Gotham City is a glorious mash-up of all kinds of people and personalities. Since the roads aren't lined with roses, the Flower Flashes will be.   This book is 240 pages of Flower Flash Flower Power with the Bandit himself - Lewis Miller - flower lover, flower advocate, and joyous bringer of random acts of beauty. You can get a copy of Flower Flash by Lewis Miller and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $16.   Botanic Spark 1843 Birth of Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), British horticulturist, garden designer, photographer, writer, and artist. Gertrude Jekyll was one of the most influential garden designers of the early 20th century. She created a spectacular garden at her property called Munstead Wood in England. She also created over 400 gardens in  Europe and the United States. Today the Gertrude Jekyll pink rose is considered a gardener favorite, and the rose 'Munstead Wood' honors Gertrude's garden and is one of the most splendid wine red roses. In her book, On Gardening, Gertrude wrote, The Dahlia's first duty in life is to flaunt and to swagger and to carry gorgeous blooms well above its leaves, and on no account to hang its head.   and   When I pick or crush in my hand a twig of Bay, or brush against a bush of Rosemary, or tread upon a tuft of Thyme… I feel that here is all that is best and purest and most refined, and nearest to poetry ...of the sense of smell.   Finally, Gertrude once wrote, The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.    Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. After studying at Harvard and teaching for a brief time, Emerson entered the ministry. He was appointed to the Old Second Church in his native city, but soon became an unwilling preacher. Unable in conscience to administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper after the death of his nineteen-year-old wife of tuberculosis, Emerson resigned his pastorate in 1831.The following year, he sailed for Europe, visiting Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Carlyle, the Scottish-born English writer, was famous for his explosive attacks on hypocrisy and materialism, his distrust of democracy, and his highly romantic belief in the power of the individual. Emerson's friendship with Carlyle was both lasting and significant; the insights of the British thinker helped Emerson formulate his own philosophy. On his return to New England, Emerson became known for challenging traditional thought. In 1835, he married his second wife, Lydia Jackson, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. Known in the local literary circle as "The Sage of Concord," Emerson became the chief spokesman for Transcendentalism, the American philosophic and literary movement. Centered in New England during the 19th century, Transcendentalism was a reaction against scientific rationalism.Emerson's first book, Nature (1836), is perhaps the best expression of his Transcendentalism, the belief that everything in our world—even a drop of dew—is a microcosm of the universe. His concept of the Over-Soul—a Supreme Mind that every man and woman share—allowed Transcendentalists to disregard external authority and to rely instead on direct experience. "Trust thyself," Emerson's motto, became the code of Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and W. E. Channing. From 1842 to 1844, Emerson edited the Transcendentalist journal, The Dial. Emerson wrote a poetic prose, ordering his essays by recurring themes and images. His poetry, on the other hand, is often called harsh and didactic. Among Emerson's most well known works are Essays, First and Second Series (1841, 1844). The First Series includes Emerson's famous essay, "Self-Reliance," in which the writer instructs his listener to examine his relationship with Nature and God, and to trust his own judgment above all others.Emerson's other volumes include Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and English Traits (1865). His best-known addresses are The American Scholar (1837) and The Divinity School Address, which he delivered before the graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, shocking Boston's conservative clergymen with his descriptions of the divinity of man and the humanity of Jesus. Emerson's philosophy is characterized by its reliance on intuition as the only way to comprehend reality, and his concepts owe much to the works of Plotinus, Swedenborg, and Böhme. A believer in the "divine sufficiency of the individual," Emerson was a steady optimist. His refusal to grant the existence of evil caused Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James, Sr., among others, to doubt his judgment. In spite of their skepticism, Emerson's beliefs are of central importance in the history of American culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson died of pneumonia on April 27, 1882.From https://poets.org/poet/ralph-waldo-emerson. For more information about Ralph Waldo Emerson:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., about Emerson, at 21:55: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-104-eddie-s-glaude-jrSamantha Rose Hill about Emerson, at 17:05: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-171-samantha-rose-hill“Ralph Waldo Emerson”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ralph-waldo-emerson“Ralph Waldo Emerson”: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/mayjune/feature/ralph-waldo-emerson“Ralph Waldo Emerson”: ​​https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emerson/

词汇提示1.flourishing 繁荣的2.capable 能干的3.severe 严重的4.scarlet fever 猩红热5.spoiled 宠坏的6.substantial 大量的7.resembles 仿效8.sequel 续集原文Louisa May AlcottNew England, in the early and middle years of the 19th century, had a flourishing culture.People were passionately interested in ideas and education.Most New Englanders were strongly opposed to slavery.They were also concerned about other social issues.New ideas resulted in new kinds of writing.These ideas included the importance of doing what seemed right for them, no matter how different it was from what other people thought.People also believe that nature gave them guidance in our lives, and that it was important to live close to nature.These and other ideas were expressed through teaching and writing. Bronson Alcott was one of those who looked at the world in a new way.He looked for work as a teacher so that he could pass on his ideas to others.However, very few parents wanted Mr. Alcott to teach their children, and very few people were interested in hearing his speeches or reading his books.As a result, the Alcott family was very poor.Fortunately for Bronson, he married a very capable and energetic woman, Mrs. Abigail Alcott, helped to earn money to support the family and did most of the work involved in looking after the four Alcott girls.The oldest daughter, Anna, was quiet and serious.She rarely got into trouble and was a good helper at home.The second daughter was Louisa May Alcott, who became a writer.She was adventurous and cared very little for rules.She was always saying and doing things that got her into trouble.The third daughter, Elizabeth, was very kind and good natured.All the others loved her. As a young woman, Elizabeth had a severe case of scarlet fever and never fully recovered.She died at age 23.The youngest sister, may was talented, but she was rather spoiled.Because there was never enough money, the Alcott girls felt pressure to work at an early age.But this did not stop them from having fun.Louisa wrote little plays that she and her sisters performed at home.They all enjoyed the woods and ponds around Concord, Massachusetts, where they lived most of these years.When they moved back to Boston in 1848, Anna took a job looking after other people's children, and Louisa looked after the house.Meanwhile, their mother worked outside the home,.While working on laundry or sewing, Louisa was thinking up stories, at night she would write them down.When she was 18, she began selling poems and stories to magazines.Within ten years, Louisa was earning a substantial income from writing.One day, her publisher suggested that she write a story for girls.At first, Louisa didn't like the suggestion, but when she started to write, the ideas came rapidly.Her book was based on her own family and her own childhood.“Little Women” was published in 1868 and was an immediate success.The March family was very much like the Alcott.Mrs. Alcott resembles “Marmee”.“Meg” is like Anna and “Jo” is like Louisa herself.“Beth” is based on Elizabeth and “Amy” on May Alcott.Many of the situations in the book happened to the Alcott family.Nonetheless, many characters and incidents were invented little women.And its sequel opened up a new kind of writing for children.While these books did have a moral, they were more lively and interesting than earlier children's writing.“Little Women” inspired many writers later to write more realistic accounts of childhood.翻译路易莎·梅·奥尔科特19世纪初和中期的新英格兰有着繁荣的文化。人们对思想和教育非常感兴趣。大多数新英格兰人强烈反对奴隶制。他们还关心其他社会问题。新思想产生了新的写作方式。这些想法包括做对他们来说似乎是正确的事情的重要性，无论它与其他人的想法有多么不同。人们还相信大自然在我们的生活中给了他们指引，亲近大自然是很重要的。这些想法和其他想法都是通过教学和写作表达出来的。布朗森·奥尔科特是以一种新的方式看待世界的人之一。他想找一份当老师的工作，以便把自己的想法传给别人。然而，很少有家长希望奥尔科特教授他们的孩子，也很少有人对听他的演讲或读他的书感兴趣。结果，奥尔科特一家很穷。布朗森幸运的是，他娶了一位非常能干、精力充沛的女性——阿比盖尔·奥尔科特夫人，帮助他挣钱养家，并完成了照顾四个奥尔科特女孩的大部分工作。大女儿安娜安静而严肃。她很少惹麻烦，是家里的好帮手。二女儿是路易莎·梅·奥尔科特，她后来成为了一名作家。她喜欢冒险，很少注意规则。她总是说些什么，做些什么，让她陷入麻烦。三女儿伊丽莎白非常善良。其他人都爱她。年轻时，伊丽莎白患了严重的猩红热，从未完全康复。她在23岁时去世。最小的妹妹梅很有天赋，但她被宠坏了。因为从来没有足够的钱，奥尔科特家的女孩们在很小的时候就感到了工作的压力。但这并没有阻止她们玩得开心。路易莎写了一些她和姐妹们在家里玩的故事。他们都喜欢马萨诸塞州康科德附近的树林和池塘，这些年他们大部分时间都住在那里。1848年，当他们搬回波士顿时，安娜找到了一份照顾别人孩子的工作，路易莎则负责照看房子。与此同时，他们的母亲在外面工作。在干着洗衣或缝纫的工作的时候，路易莎会在想故事，晚上她会把它们写下来。18岁时，她开始向杂志出售诗歌和故事。不到十年，路易莎就从写作中获得了可观的收入。一天，她的出版商建议她为女孩写一个故事。起初，路易莎不喜欢这个建议，但当她开始写作时，想法很快就产生了。她的书是根据她自己的家庭和童年写成的。《小妇人》出版于1868年，立即获得成功。马奇一家很像奥尔科特一家。阿尔科特夫人很像“玛米”。“梅格”像安娜，“乔”像路易莎自己。“贝丝”改编自伊丽莎白，而“艾米”改编自梅·奥尔科特自己。书中的许多情况都发生在奥尔科特一家身上。尽管如此，许多人物和事件都是由小妇人创造的。它的续集为孩子们开辟了一种新的写作方式。虽然这些书确实有寓意，但它们比早期儿童的作品更生动有趣。《小妇人》启发了许多作家后来写更多关于童年的真实故事。文稿及音频 关注公众号“高效英语磨耳朵”

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. After studying at Harvard and teaching for a brief time, Emerson entered the ministry. He was appointed to the Old Second Church in his native city, but soon became an unwilling preacher. Unable in conscience to administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper after the death of his nineteen-year-old wife of tuberculosis, Emerson resigned his pastorate in 1831.The following year, he sailed for Europe, visiting Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Carlyle, the Scottish-born English writer, was famous for his explosive attacks on hypocrisy and materialism, his distrust of democracy, and his highly romantic belief in the power of the individual. Emerson's friendship with Carlyle was both lasting and significant; the insights of the British thinker helped Emerson formulate his own philosophy. On his return to New England, Emerson became known for challenging traditional thought. In 1835, he married his second wife, Lydia Jackson, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. Known in the local literary circle as "The Sage of Concord," Emerson became the chief spokesman for Transcendentalism, the American philosophic and literary movement. Centered in New England during the 19th century, Transcendentalism was a reaction against scientific rationalism.Emerson's first book, Nature (1836), is perhaps the best expression of his Transcendentalism, the belief that everything in our world—even a drop of dew—is a microcosm of the universe. His concept of the Over-Soul—a Supreme Mind that every man and woman share—allowed Transcendentalists to disregard external authority and to rely instead on direct experience. "Trust thyself," Emerson's motto, became the code of Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and W. E. Channing. From 1842 to 1844, Emerson edited the Transcendentalist journal, The Dial. Emerson wrote a poetic prose, ordering his essays by recurring themes and images. His poetry, on the other hand, is often called harsh and didactic. Among Emerson's most well known works are Essays, First and Second Series (1841, 1844). The First Series includes Emerson's famous essay, "Self-Reliance," in which the writer instructs his listener to examine his relationship with Nature and God, and to trust his own judgment above all others.Emerson's other volumes include Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and English Traits (1865). His best-known addresses are The American Scholar (1837) and The Divinity School Address, which he delivered before the graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, shocking Boston's conservative clergymen with his descriptions of the divinity of man and the humanity of Jesus. Emerson's philosophy is characterized by its reliance on intuition as the only way to comprehend reality, and his concepts owe much to the works of Plotinus, Swedenborg, and Böhme. A believer in the "divine sufficiency of the individual," Emerson was a steady optimist. His refusal to grant the existence of evil caused Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James, Sr., among others, to doubt his judgment. In spite of their skepticism, Emerson's beliefs are of central importance in the history of American culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson died of pneumonia on April 27, 1882.From https://poets.org/poet/ralph-waldo-emerson. For more information about Ralph Waldo Emerson:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., about Emerson, at 21:55: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-104-eddie-s-glaude-jrSamantha Rose Hill about Emerson, at 17:05: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-171-samantha-rose-hill“Ralph Waldo Emerson”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ralph-waldo-emerson“Ralph Waldo Emerson”: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/mayjune/feature/ralph-waldo-emerson

In researching and writing my book on Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi and the unification of Italy (A Man Of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based On The Life Of Giuseppe Garibaldi)  I re-discovered the first American female war correspondent – Margaret Fuller — who I had first met in a college course on the Transcendentalists. … Continue reading "22 Giovanni Angelo, Marchese Ossoli from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]" Related posts: 02 Fuller’s Life and Bronson Alcott from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video] 10 Fuller and Italian Reunification from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video] 12 Fuller and Garibaldi from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]

In researching and writing my book on Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi and the unification of Italy (A Man Of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based On The Life Of Giuseppe Garibaldi)  I re-discovered the first American female war correspondent – Margaret Fuller — who I had first met in a college course on the Transcendentalists. … Continue reading "21 The Husband from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]" Related posts: 12 Fuller and Garibaldi from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video] 13 Fuller and Her Relationships from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video] 02 Fuller’s Life and Bronson Alcott from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]

Before Louisa May Alcott grew up to be a famous children's author, she belonged to her parents: Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. Bronson was an educator whose lofty ideas brought him to the forefront of the Transcendentalist philosophy movement. Abigail May Alcott was a social worker and ardent supporter of women's suffrage. Together, they created a family where their four daughters were encouraged to be active, creative individuals. This is the story of Louisa May Alcott as a daughter.Visit our website to learn about the references in this episode: https://www.letgeniusburn.com/learn-moreIf you can, please support Feeding America: https://www.feedingamerica.org.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 65, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Numerical Phrases 1: Numerical term for a burglar who specializes in breaking into buildings through upstairs windows. second-story men. 2: Though "heck" and "darn" are examples of these, the phrase usually refers to saltier language. 4-letter words. 3: Collective name for the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole tribes. the Five Civilized Nations (or Tribes). 4: Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park includes part of the Painted Desert and a stretch of this historic road. Route 66. 5: Originated by Alcoholics Anonymous, it includes a "fearless moral inventory". 12-step program. Round 2. Category: Historic People 1: "Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting" and "Scouting For Boys" are among the books by this former British soldier. Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 2: He didn't fiddle around after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 A.D.; he built himself a palace called The Golden House. Nero. 3: Mourners at Monet's 1926 funeral included fellow artists and this WWI French premier known as "The Tiger". Georges Clemenceau. 4: In 1902 she and her husband isolated pure radium chloride. Marie Curie. 5: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was also known by this name that means "red beard". Barbarossa. Round 3. Category: Kids In Books 1: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister. Ramona. 2: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight. Lassie. 3: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king. King Arthur. 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book". "The Jungle Book". 5: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear. Winnie the Pooh. Round 4. Category: Philosophers 1: Kukai and Saicho were major philosophers of this country's Heian period. Japan. 2: "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins", wrote this English philosopher who influenced the founding fathers. John Locke. 3: Transcendentalist philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott was this author's father. Louisa May Alcott. 4: This saint's written output was more than 8 million words, and he died around age 50. (Thomas) Aquinas. 5: "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins", wrote this English philosopher who influenced the founding fathers. John Locke. Round 5. Category: Capital Punishment 1: Mata Hari. Firing Squad. 2: Louis XVI. Beheaded. 3: Joan of Arc. Burned at the stake. 4: Haman. Hung from the gallows. 5: Socrates. Drank Hemlock. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Programming Note: We're delaying the release of Episode 6: The Frozen Pond to make sure that its quality is top-notch. Please enjoy this bonus episode and check back this Thursday for our next regular episode!History professor Sarah Ifft Decker of the Media-eval Podcast joins Shannon to discuss Louisa's father Bronson Alcott and his ahead-of-his-time ideas about education. This episode was guest-edited by our own Zach Powers, also of the Revisionists Podcast.

May Alcott Nieriker is mostly remembered as a footnote in a famous family: the daughter of Bronson Alcott and the inspiration for Amy March in her sister Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. But Alcott Nieriker was a writer and an accomplished painter who studied in Paris and was described by John Ruskin as “the only artist worthy to copy Turner.” This episode emerges from the the conference “Recovering May Alcott Nieriker’s Life and Works,” which was held at the Université Paris Diderot on June 28, 2018. What work can be done through research, teaching, and even historical fiction to bring her to the fore? Here Azelina Flint (University of East Anglia) and her students Poppy Henson and Emelia Platt introduce listeners to May Alcott Nieriker and interview novelist Elise Hooper, author of The Other Alcott (2017), Marlowe Daly-Galeano (Lewis Clark State College), Lauren Hehmeyer (Texarkana College), and John Matteson (John Jay College, CUNY). This episode was created by Flint and produced by Chris Timms (Essex University) with post-production help from Mark Sussman.

Louisa May Alcott, most famous for her coming of age novel Little Women, wrote in a variety of genres to support her family, including humor. As a child of the famous education reformer Bronson Alcott, she was dragged along to take part in a communal living experiment spearheaded by her father and including such luminaries as Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne. “Transcendental Wild Oats” is a satirical account of that tiny community's first year, taking a tongue-in-cheek look at living an “ideal life.”

Louisa May Alcott, most famous for her coming of age novel Little Women, wrote in a variety of genres to support her family, including humor.   As a child of the famous education reformer Bronson Alcott, she was dragged along to take part in a communal living experiment spearheaded by her father and including such luminaries as Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  “Transcendental Wild Oats” is a satirical account of that tiny community’s first year, taking a tongue-in-cheek look at living an “ideal life.”  

Louisa was not the only notable Alcott. Her father, Bronson Alcott, made a name for himself as a philosopher and a teacher. And her youngest sister, May Alcott, was an artist, who was really growing in prominence before she died at an early age. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers