Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"
Facts In Brief
Birth: November 29, 1832, In Germantown, Pennsylvania
Father: Bronson Alcott
Sisters: three
Educational Background: She was the best-known writer of juvenile fiction books.
Death: March 6, 1888, In Boston, Massachusetts
We chose this person because we thought she was a really good person in life. She helped injured soldiers in the war and she volunteered in women’s suffrage. Alcott was the daughter of Bronson Alcott, the Concord transcendentalist philosopher and educator. At sixteen she wrote a book, Flower Fables and she also wrote a number of plays that were never produced. By 1860 she was publishing stories and poems in the Atlantic Monthly.
During the Civil War she was a nurse until her health failed, and her Hospital Sketches brought the first public attention to her work. Finally the attention started to die out, but when she published her first novel, Moods, in 1865, she was glad she had accepted it in 1867 the editorship of the juvenile magazine Merry’s Museum. The next year she produced the first volume of Little Women, a cheerful book about her childhood, have herself be Jo and her sisters as Amy, Beth, and Meg. The book was a success the minute that it came out, in 1869 she produced the second volume to the series. She wrote three other books to go along with Little women to support her family. Later on the years she was active in the causes of temperance and woman’s suffrage, and she also toured Europe. In 1876 she came out with a new series called Silver Pitchers, containing, “Transcendental Wild Oats, for her father. She produced a book every year. She died on March 6,1888 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Bibliography
Title: The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography volume 1 Copyright: 1973 Author: Robert F. Lucid Pages: 100 and 101
Title: Reference library of American Women volume 1 Copyright: 1999 Author: Gale Research Ednah Cheney
AlcottWeb--A site for Louisa May Alcott, Author of Little Women Date of Access: 3/29/01 Author: Orchard House
Louisa May Alcott
Date of Access: 3/29/01 Author: Susan Lank Tolbert
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