Person:Louisa Alcott (1)
Louisa May Alcott
b.29 Nov 1832 Germantown (now Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, United States
d.6 Mar 1888 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 23 May 1830
  1. Anna Alcott1831 - 1893
  2. Louisa May Alcott1832 - 1888
  3. Elizabeth Sewell "Lizzie" Alcott1835 - 1858
  4. May Alcott1840 - 1879
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Name Louisa May Alcott
Gender Female
Birth? 29 Nov 1832 Germantown (now Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, United States
Death? 6 Mar 1888 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Reference Number? Q185696?


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Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).[1] Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, Alcott sometimes used pen names such as A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.

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, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt. The novel was well received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted many times to stage, film, and television.

An abolitionist and a feminist, Alcott was active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage throughout her life. Alcott never married. She died from a stroke two days after her father in Boston on March 6, 1888.

Alcott never married.

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