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Louisa May Alcott
was an
American novelist
best known
as author of the
novel
Little
Women
and
its
sequels
Little
Men
and
Jo's
Boys
.
Nevertheless,
her family
suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott
worked to
help support the family
from an early
age. She began
to receive critical
success
for her writing
in the 1860s.
Early in her
career, she
sometimes
used the pen name
A. M. Barnard
. With her pen
name Louisa wrote novels
for young
adults in juvenile hall.
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. The novel was
very well
received and is still a
popular
children's novel
today. Alcott was an
abolitionist
and a feminist.
She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.
Alcott
was
born
on
November
29,
1832,
in
Germantown
.
On
her
father's
33rd
birthday. 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.
Bronson
Alcott's
opinions
on
education
and
tough
views
on
child-rearing
shaped
young
Alcott's
mind
with
a
desire
to achieve
perfection, a goal of the
transcendentalists
.
Alcott died at age 55 of a
stroke
in Boston, on March
6, 1888. Two days
after her father's
death. She is buried in
Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery
in
Concord, near
Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, on a hillside now
known
as
Louisa May
Alcott
wrote from
the
heart. It was based on
author
’
s own
experiences.
Little
Women
is the story of the Marches, a
family used to
hard
toil
and
suffering.
The
novel
doesn
’
t
have
fantastic
plot,
and
the
author
described
the
happy
family
life
with
simple
language.
However,
this
is
a
story
of
how
they
growing
up
and
their
happy
family
life.
It
has
become
a much
loved classic tale and many of the trials among
the sisters are
relevant to
today
’
s family life.
It tells a story of the March sisters:
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their
father
is
away
fighting
in
the
war,
they
live
with
their
mother.
Mrs.
March
is
the
authority
of
the
family.
She
attaches
importance
to
the
education
of
the
girl
and
teaches
them
many
precious
virtues.
Although
they
are
poor,
she
still
helps
people
who
are
poorer.
For
instance,
she
tells
her
children
there is a family
who is starving and asks girls if they can give
their
breakfast
as
presents
to
the
poor
family.
The
education
ways
of
Mrs.
March
are
valuable. She is no doubt a qualifier mother.
Meg
is
the
eldest
one
in
the
family.
She
has
a
sweet
and
pious
nature,
which unconsciously influenced her
sisters, especially Jo. But she also
has
shortcoming.
At
last
she
corrects
it
and
marries
a
man
who
is
not
rich
but loves her very
much.