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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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Examiner.com, April 18, 2013
...What was the first historical fiction novel you ever read? In fifth grade I read "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott for the first time. I read it at the bus stop, on the bus, during lunch, etc. I didn't understand some of it, so I re-read it...
Commercial Dispatch, April 16, 2013
...Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, and H. Rider Haggard all got into the act; it is a surprise that Louisa May Alcott did, too, in a "brief and nasty shocker, 'Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse'" of 1869. And then, at the turn of the century...
EHow.com, April 9, 2013
..." King County Library also recommends "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery and "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. For the History Buffs As your teen becomes more aware and interested in current events, he will appreciate what he can learn about...
World News Network, April 9, 2013
...In exceptional prose, Feldman recalls how stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to see an alternative way of life—one she knew she had to seize when, at the age of nineteen, she...
Examiner.com, April 7, 2013
...is viewed, particularly by the American Transcendentalists, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Margaret Sanger, Louisa May Alcott explored the revolutionary idea that within the individual’s soul was the soul of the...
The Week Magazine, April 6, 2013
...and he showed me the beauty of our colors and the wonder of our music. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Bantam, $4). When I read Alcott, I knew that these girls she was talking about were all white. But they were nice girls and I understood them. I...
Boston Globe, April 2, 2013
...New North Church in Hingham is presenting a lecture series on Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, as well as other noted members of the Alcott family. The idea for the lectures came to organizer John Bewick when he was reading...
News Sentinel, January 19, 2013
...I think I've read 'Little Women' every year around Christmas time. In fact, I re-read all of Louisa (May) Alcott's books. ?My mother was getting rid of a lot of books because my parents are downsizing, so I grabbed a lot of those I had read as...
Queen's Journal, January 17, 2013
...Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 8. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9. On the Road by Jack Kerouac...
Patriot Ledger, January 17, 2013
...Southern slave owners. 1842 Rev. Samuel May loses his pulpit In 1836, the uncle of ?Little Women? author Louisa May Alcott was hired as the pastor of First Parish Church in Norwell, which then was part of Scituate. The congregation knew he was an...
NPR, January 17, 2013
...and Gubar were talking about was one in which writers as disparate as Austen, Emily Dickinson, the Brontes, Louisa May Alcott and George Eliot used similar themes and images to dramatize the social limitations they themselves suffered as women. Once you...
The Empire, January 17, 2013
...and Gubar were talking about was one in which writers as disparate as Austen, Emily Dickinson, the Brontes, Louisa May Alcott and George Eliot used similar themes and images to dramatize the social limitations they themselves suffered as women. Once you...
WUKY, January 17, 2013
...and Gubar were talking about was one in which writers as disparate as Austen, Emily Dickinson, the Brontes, Louisa May Alcott and George Eliot used similar themes and images to dramatize the social limitations they themselves suffered as women. Once you...
Huffington Post, January 17, 2013
...Musketeers is clearly the best of the swashbuckling part of his "oeuvre." Still another well-known sequel is Louisa May Alcott's Little Men , which followed the beloved classic Little Women . Among my biggest sequel disappointments are two in the...