Louisa May Alcott
 | Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American writer best known as the author of Little Women. She was born to noted transcendentalists Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott and raised in New England among literary luminaries such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Like the family in the novel, the Alcotts were financially challenged and Louisa worked to help support the family at an early age. She was educated by her father and received instruction in writing from Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne as well as Margaret Fuller and Julia Ward Howe. She found an outlet in writing and began writing for the Atlantic Monthly in 1860. An abolitionist, she served as a nurse in Georgetown, DC when the Civil War broke out but contracted typhoid fever after six weeks. Her letters home during her recovery were collected as Hospital Sketches and brought her critical recognition. She wrote fiery novels for young adults and sensational stories under the pen name A. M. Bernard. Following the success of Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys she shied away from publicity but was a strong voice in a group of female authors that addressed women’s issues with candor. She suffered from chronic health problems, possibly from mercury poisoning or lupus, and died of a stroke at age 55 two days after her father’s death. She is buried on a hillside in Concord, Massachusetts known as “Author’s Alley” alongside Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. |
Little Women
Little Women follows the lives of the four sisters as they grow from childhood through their teen ye..
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