like bronson alcott's journals which amount to 52 volumes.the sources were really rich and i enjoyed it very much. i liked the journals and letters more than anything else. she wrote quickly and only for money and never revised and it shows. they are not carefully perfected. the book she liked the most was a novel called moods which she worked on for 20 years and without success in my opinion. some scholars hold it in high esteem but i didn't. it is intriguing because the apps is louisa may alcott's character. she marries a man exactly like emerson. look at a photograph of emerson and read a description of jeffrey more, his description is emerson and the other man,y action is henry david thoreau. it is intriguing. you have a question? >> what relationships do we know of? significant romantic relationships that we know of? >> significant romantic relationships that we know of. she decided not to marry. she was afraid to try it. she did have flirtations. she had huge crushes on henry david thoreau and emerson and friendships with younger men. t

ahead was focusing on the relationship between bronson alcott and louisa, which especially they bookoned about the feminist one, is a pretty heavy-handed. it is kind of based upon the thrillers and there is a lot of battles over the sexes and thrillers. he seems to be a villain. if you take the book literally, which he did and actually now martha saxton said it went a bit too far in the direction that she took it. excuse me. so madison's book is a much more subtle exploration of her relationship with her father. she was born on her father's birthday when he was 33 and she died two days after he died without knowing that he had died. so they were very closely tied. i go into it in the book, but i didn't center the book as much on it because madison had written this very fine book not long before. but her father was a scientist really. he recorded his children's activities from the day of birth, so we know what louisa was like at four months old and we know that a two years old she waged a campaign for dominance over her 3 1/2 -year-old sister and one because she took advantage of her