Louisa May Alcott Grave
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6/24/2012 3:58:42 PM

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

When Louisa May Alcott was a young child, her parents moved to Concord, MA. Through her parents she came to know Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. When she became an adult, she was firm abolitionist and feminist. In 1860, Alcott began getting articles published in The Atlantic Monthly and during the Civil War worked as a nurse in a hospital in Washington, DC.

Alcott gained her primary fame from her semiautobiographical novel Little Women which was written in 1868. She followed the book with part 2 entitled Good Wives in 1869. She never married even though Jo, a character in her books based loosely on herself, married.

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. 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.

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