Reading recommendations:

• The Alcotts: Biography of a Family – by Madelon Bedell (1980)
• Concord: Climate for Freedom – by Ruth R. Wheeler (1967)
• The Days of Henry Thoreau – by Walter Harding (1966)
• Discovery at Walden – by Roland Wells Robbins (1947)
• Emerson: The Mind on Fire: A Biography – Robert Richardson (1995)
• Emerson’ Prose and Poetry – edited by Joel Porte (Norton, 2001)
• Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne – by Frank Preston Stearns (1906)
• Little Women – by Louisa May Alcott (Norton, 2004)
• Louisa May – by Martha Saxton (1977)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife – by Julian Hawthorne (1884)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne in his Times – by James R. Mellow (1980)
• A Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia – by Robert L. Gale (1991)
• Thoreau – by Frank B. Sanborn (1882)
• The Variorum Walden – edited by Walter Harding (1962)
• Walden – by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
• Walden Pond: A History – by W. Barksdale Maynard (2004)
• Waldo Emerson: A Biography – by Gay Wilson Allen (1981)
• The Wayside: Home of Authors – by Margaret M. Lothrop (1940)
• Brook Farm – by Sterling Delano (2004)
  
  

Organiations and Useful Websites:

• Thoreau Society:
  55 Old Bedford Road
  Concord MA 01742
  www.thoreausociety.org
• Walden Pond State Reservation:
  915 Walden Street
  Concord MA 01742
  (978) 369-3254
• Emerson Society
  www.rwe.org
• Alcotts and The Orchard House
  www.louisamayalcott.org
• Hawthorne and The Wayside
  www.nps.gov/mima/wayside
• The Old Manse
  www.thetrustees.org
• The Concord Museum
  www.concordmuseum.org
• The Concord Free Public Library
  www.concordnet.org/library/