A modern biography on louisa may alcott

So the first time I read Martha Saxton's 1977 Louisa May Alcott: a Modern Biography (in December 2012 and in one mega and continuous reading session) I failed to post a review.

And this was mostly because I was unable at that time to verbally (and indeed to and for me reasonably enough) express how much reading Louisa May Alcott: a Modern Biography had made me actively and vehemently despise Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson Alcott.

For while Bronson Alcott might in fact be an individual whose transcendentalism and liberal views on education I have always much respected (especially since for the 19th century, his educational reform ideas are indeed delightfully modern and student-friendly), the Alcott family life information and details presented by Martha Saxton in Louisa May Alcott: a Modern Biography (and in particular regarding the Alcotts' life at Fruitlands) also clearly and decidedly show that Bronson Alcott obviously