ALL1404-C First 6 Weeks Thursdays 10:30-11:50 Start Date 30-Jan
Grossman 106 Limit 25
Elizabeth Peabody founded Boston’s Transcendentalist Club at the West Street Bookshop in 1839. The Wednesday “Conversations” she offered ignited the flame for social change. Conversationalists included Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lydia Marie Child. Louisa May Alcott, though too young to attend at the time, was inspired by this community of Transcendentalist women (and men) in Concord. For the first class, please read any one of the following books and prepare to share the main points of interest and inspiration. Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eve LaPlante; Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall; The Peabody Sisters (focus on Elizabeth) by Megan Marshall; or Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life by Lydia Moland. Course participants will receive additional book recommendations. We can learn a lot from one another.
Coordinator: Susan Whalley 
Susan is a retired school counselor and an enthusiast of early American history. She has led classes at ALL for more than a decade, most recently about the life of Mercy Otis Warren.