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Alcott also benefited from her parent's close friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne, all of whom were her informal educators, and she spent many hours perusing the shelves of Emerson's library. She also went on nature excursions with Thoreau, something that undoubtedly appealed to her tomboy nature. And living among so many transcendentalists, Alcott learned from a young age the virtue of working tirelessly toward self-improvement and perfection.
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Source: Excerpted from the article Building Castles in the Air on Little Women fame author Louisa May Alcott, in SUCCESS Magazine's September issue.
