Louisa May Alcott 1832 -1888 Childhood Early

Louisa May Alcott (1832 -1888)

Childhood Early works The Civil War Little women Literary success Later life

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) the US author who wrote novels for children

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, but the family quickly moved to Massachusetts. There they bought a house which they called Orchard House

Louisa was the second of four daughters of Bronson Alcott and Abigail May

The girls were mostly educated at home & were taught mainly by their father & writers who were all family friends.

They had little formal education. "I never went to school, " Louisa wrote.

Poverty made it necessary for Alcott to take care of the welfare of the family. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published.

In 1863 Alcott published her letters in Hospital Sketches (1863), based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC during the Civil War.

In 1868, Louisa May Alcott wrote a book about four sisters, published in September as Little Women, based on an idealized version of her own family.

Little Women is the story of The Marches, a family used to hard labour and suffering. Although Father March is away with the Union armies, the sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth keep in high spirits with their mother.

However, despite their efforts to be good, the girls show faults. This is the story of their growing wisdom and the search for the satisfaction of family life.

Little Women has been translated into more than 50 languages.

In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. Her other books include Work (1873), Eight Cousins (1875), Roses in Bloom (1876) and Under the Lilacs (1879).

Louisa died on March 6, 1888. She was 55. She was buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord. Her grave bears a Civil War veteran's marker - the American flag in honor of her wartime service.

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