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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.

Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at "Hillside".

Like her character, "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy. "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, "and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences ..."

For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays --"the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."

At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write -- anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"

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Born 29 November 1832
Died 6 March 1888

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  • Cover of: La pequeña mujercita: La navidad de Tatiana ; El relato de Rosa : tres cuentos encantadores de Navidad

    First published in 1999 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Short Works of Louisa May Alcott

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    First published in 1907 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1997 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1976 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Works of Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888, Set

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Born 29 November 1832
Died 6 March 1888

Subjects

Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, general, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), American fiction (fictional works by one author), Conduct of life, History, Young women, New england, fiction, Families, Women, American literature, Classic Literature, Fiction, historical, general, Short stories, Children's stories, American, Family life, Sisters, Sisters, fiction, Man-woman relationships, March family (fictitious characters), fiction, Family life, fiction, Sex role

Places

New England, United States, Nouvelle-Angleterre, Massachusetts, England, Salem Village, Alabama, Egypt, Europe, Owl Creek Bridge, 221B Baker Street, Alpha Inn, Boston (Mass.), British Museum, Brixton, Chênière Caminada, Concord, Concord (Mass.), Covent Garden, Dayton (Ohio), European Union countries, Fruitlands (Harvard, Mass.), Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Grand Isle, Gulf of Mexico

People

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), Devil, Ethelred, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), Peyton Farquhar, Adèle Ratignolle, Alcott family, Alcée Arobin, Alphonse Ratignolle, Amanda Wingfield, Amy March, Baker Street Irregulars, Bartleby, Beaudelet, Beth March, Breckinridge, C. Auguste Dupin, Catherine Cusack, Catherine Earnshaw, Cathy Linton

Time

19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1600s, 20th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, Civil War, Siglo XIX, 1783-1865, 1801, 1861-65, 1868-, 1894, 19e siècle, 19th Century, 20e siècle, Antebellum era, Jin dai ., Jindai, carnival

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November 14, 2024 Edited by Freso merge authors
August 28, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris Remove bad AKAs
September 25, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
July 1, 2022 Edited by AgentSapphire merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import