The Journals of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott

The family moved to Boston in 1834, where Alcott's father established an experimental school and joined the Transcendental Club with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

As a child, she was a tomboy who preferred boys’ games. She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest. Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, which is now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on her father's 33rd birthday. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father had died. She also spent her life active in such reform movements as temperance and women's suffrage. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.Īlcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Īlcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing.

Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Louisa May Alcott ( / ˈ ɔː l k ə t, - k ɒ t/ November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott