L. M. Alcott: Signature of Reform Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Domestic Reform: Food, Drink, Dress	19
	The American Woman's Home	21
	L. M. Alcott's Domestic Philosophy: Merry's Museum	26
	L. M. Alcott on Food: Eight Cousins	27
	L. M. Alcott on Drink: Eight Cousins	29
	L. M. Alcott on Drink: "Jimmy's Lecture," The Press Leaflets	30
	L. M. Alcott on Dress: An Old-Fashioned Girl	33
	L. M. Alcott on Dress: Eight Cousins	35
2	Health and Alternative Medicine: Homeopathy, Phrenology, Mind Cure	37
	Organon of the Healing Art	39
	Synopsis of Phrenology and Physiology	41
	Trust in the Infinite	44
	L. M. Alcott on Homeopathy: Eight Cousins	46
	L. M. Alcott: "Lines to a Good Physician, From a Grateful Patient"	47
	Phrenological Examination of L. M. Alcott	48
	L. M. Alcott: Poem to Her Sister Anna Pratt	49
	Character Analysis of L. M. Alcott in Phrenological Journal	50
	L. M. Alcott on Mind Cure: Letters to Maggie Lukens	51
	L. M. Alcott on Mind Cure: Journal, 1885	53
	"Miss Alcott on Mind-Cure": The Woman's Journal	54
3	Education: Moral, Intellectual, Physical	57
	Record of Mr. Alcott's School	59
	Reports of the School Committee, and Superintendent of the Schools	63
	Catalogue and Circular of Dr. Dio Lewis's Family School for Young Ladies	66
	L. M. Alcott's Pedagogical Credo: Little Men, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, Jo's Boys	69
	L. M. Alcott on the New Gymnastics: Letter to Louisa C. G. Bond	71
	L. M. Alcott: "The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts," The Monitor	72
4	Communal Society: "The Newness"	75
	A. Bronson Alcott to Junius Alcott	77
	Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands	79
	L. M. Alcott's Journal: Fruitlands	83
	L. M. Alcott: "Transcendental Wild Oats," The Independent	87
5	Antislavery and Abolition	103
	Vigilance Committee [Re: Anthony Burns], Americans, Freemen	105
	George and Mary Mauzy of Harpers Ferry to James and Eugenia Burton	106
	John Brown's Speech before the Court	108
	Hannah Ropes, Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes	110
	Some Recollections of the Antislavery Conflict	113
	L. M. Alcott: "With a Rose, That Bloomed on the Day of John Brown's Martyrdom," The Liberator	116
	L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott	116
	L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt	118
	L. M. Alcott to Edward J. Bartlett and Garth Wilkinson James	120
	L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman	121
	L. M. Alcott to Mr. Rand	123
	L. M. Alcott to Thomas Wentworth Higginson	123
	Hospital Sketches	125
6	Woman's Economic Role: Egalitarianism	137
	Woman in the Nineteenth Century	139
	"Petition of Abby May Alcott and Others to the Citizens of Massachusetts," Una	141
	A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor"; or, A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D., ...	142
	L. M. Alcott: "How I Went Out to Service," The Independent	144
	L. M. Alcott to James Redpath	145
	L. M. Alcott: "Happy Women," New York Ledger	146
	L. M. Alcott: Work: A Story of Experience	150
	L. M. Alcott to Maria S. Porter	152
	Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"	153
7	Sex and Feminism	155
	The Young Wife	157
	Woman in the Nineteenth Century	161
	L. M. Alcott: "Taming a Tartar," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper	162
	L. M. Alcott: "Woman's Part in the Concord Celebration," Woman's Journal	198
8	Suffrage	203
	William Henry Channing to the Woman's Rights Convention	205
	"Petition of Abby May Alcott and Others to the Citizens of Massachusetts," Una	209
	L. M. Alcott to Lucy Stone	211
	L. M. Alcott to The Woman's Journal	214
	L. M. Alcott to the American Woman Suffrage Association	220
	Jo's Boys	221
	Index	223