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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832, the second of four daughters of the philosopher Bronson Alcott. She was educated at home and went on to become a schoolteacher in Boston. Her first book Flower Fables (which she wrote when she was sixteen) was published when she was twenty-two, but she interrupted her career as a writer to nurse soldiers at a Washington hospital during the civil war. Her most enduring book, Little Women, was published in 1868 and was an instant success. Other books include Little Men and Jo's Boys. Louisa May Alcott died in 1888 at the age of fifty-six.

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Warwick Beacon, May 17, 2012
...Narragansett Bay.” On Tuesday, May 22 at 7 p.m., the Library will present the American Masters film, “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women.’” The film follows Alcott from her tough childhood to her remarkable success as an American...
Broad Street Review, May 15, 2012
...it.” And of course he’s right (even if he’s ungrammatical). Bissinger acknowledges what self-deluded writers like Louisa May Alcott and me refuse to admit: that one of the reasons we can’t string beautiful sentences together is that we’re too...
News Leader, May 13, 2012
...year. In Massachusetts on vacations she'd knit sweaters and insisted that we always had to visit the Louisa May Alcott House in Concord where she proceeded to brag to the hostesses about her children and grandchildren. And she was terrified of death, and...
New York Post, May 12, 2012
...Kingsolver is such an elegant but never show-offy writer with a beautiful sense of humor. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott It was one of the first real chapter books I read, and I got lost in this story of a strong, compassionate mother trying to raise...
GoArticles, May 12, 2012
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Concord Patch, May 12, 2012
...second floor. The gallery is currently featuring items from Special Collections in honor of the 100th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House as a museum. So we got to see things like pictures of Louisa May sitting at her writing desk, and the...
Avon OH Patch, May 12, 2012
...won't give up. Still on my bookshelves are the Little House books, everything L.M. Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott wrote, Elizabeth Enright's Melendy family series and the Gone-Away Lake books, Sidney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family series and A Papa Like...
Jewish World Review, March 26, 2012
...back at data-mining empires Susan Johnston: Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance? The Kosher Gourmet by Marilyn Naron: Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump: A homey, deliberately simple dessert, comfort cousin to fruit buckles, betties, cobblers, grunts...
Jewish World Review, March 26, 2012
...back at data-mining empires Susan Johnston: Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance? The Kosher Gourmet by Marilyn Naron: Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump: A homey, deliberately simple dessert, comfort cousin to fruit buckles, betties, cobblers, grunts...
Jewish World Review, March 26, 2012
...back at data-mining empires Susan Johnston: Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance? The Kosher Gourmet by Marilyn Naron: Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump: A homey, deliberately simple dessert, comfort cousin to fruit buckles, betties, cobblers, grunts...
Jewish World Review, March 26, 2012
...back at data-mining empires Susan Johnston: Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance? The Kosher Gourmet by Marilyn Naron: Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump: A homey, deliberately simple dessert, comfort cousin to fruit buckles, betties, cobblers, grunts...
Jewish World Review, March 26, 2012
...back at data-mining empires Susan Johnston: Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance? The Kosher Gourmet by Marilyn Naron: Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump: A homey, deliberately simple dessert, comfort cousin to fruit buckles, betties, cobblers, grunts...
Scotch Plains-Fanwood Patch, March 26, 2012
...of the award winning musical, “ Little Women.” The musical is based on the life and novel written by Louisa May Alcott. The production is directed by Juan Pineda, a Broadway veteran and Valerie Pineda, founder of the Pineda Lyric Opera, and a...
Oregonian, March 25, 2012
...with photos of loved ones no longer living and old treasured things (my mom's childhood copy of Louisa May Alcott's "An Old-Fashioned Girl," for instance). And Grudin's book, of course, remains. I doubt I'll ever drain it dry of new insights.But now there...