...under his patriarchal sway, should regenerate the world and glorify his name for ever. Here Abel Lamb, with the devoutest faith in the high ideal which was...find rest for herself and a home for her children. "There is our new abode, announced the enthusiast, smiling with a satisfaction quite undamped by the...

...show is Abel Lamb, as Louisa Alcott calls her father in her memoir, Transcendental Wild Oats, who, "with the devoutest faith in the high ideal which...Virtue, Justice and Love might live happily together." As those abstract embodiments are trotted out, we feel an inevitable sense of contingency waiting in...

...she clearly allies her sympathies with the character of Hope Lamb. Hope is the wife of Abel Lamb who "with the devoutest faith in the high ideal, which...without the possibility of a serpent entering in." Behind the figure of Hope is Alcott's wife Abby, a woman who called herself "ballast for his balloon."...

...evokes the plight of Sister Hope, wife of Abel Lamb, who though unconverted to her husband's cause "hoped, after many wanderings over the face of the...earth, to find rest for herself and a home for her children."25 Homeless Sister Hope soon finds that Fruitlands offers neither. From the beginning, she...

...under his patriarchal sway, should regenerate the world and glorify his name for ever. Here Abel Lamb, with the devoutest faith in the high ideal which was...find rest for herself and a home for her children. "There is our new abode," announced the enthusiast, smiling with a satisfaction quite undamped by the...