ALCOTT

n. family name; male first name; Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), United States teacher and writer who was an advocate of transcendentalism and declared that learning should be based on pleasure and imagination and not on discipline; Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, United States novelist who wrote the novel "Little Women" 1868