Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.  Louisa was educated by her father and close family friends, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.  She was also well-acquainted with author Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Probably her most famous work is Little Women.  It is partly autobiographical – her independent and spunky character, Jo March, is Louisa.  Jo’s sisters were inspired by Louisa’s own sisters.

Miss Alcott was anti-slavery and pro-women’s rights. In 1879, Louisa Alcott became the first woman to register to vote in a town election.  As she grew in popularity as an author, she contributed to the finances of the family.  She never married.  She died just two days after her father’s death, on March 6, 1888.  Her works includes:

  • A Country Christmas
  • A Garland for Girls
  • A Long Fatal Love Chase
  • A Modern Cinderella (The Little Old Shoe)
  • A Modern Mephistopheles
  • An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
  • An Old-fashioned Girl
  • Aunt Kipp
  • Behind A Mask, or A Woman’s Power
  • Cupid and Chow Chow
  • Debby’s Debut
  • Eight Cousins
  • Flower Fables
  • Good Wives
  • Hospital Sketches
  • Jack and Jill
  • Jo’s Boys
  • Kitty’s Class Day
  • Little Men
  • Little Women
  • Lulu’s Library
  • Marjorie’s Three Gifts
  • Mood’s
  • My Red Cap
  • Nelly’s Hospital
  • On Picket Duty
  • Pauline’s Passion and Punishment
  • Psyche’s Art
  • Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rose In Bloom
  • Roses and Forget-Me-Nots
  • Scarlett Stockings
  • The Blind Lark
  • The Brothers
  • The Cross on the Old Church Tower
  • The Death of John
  • The Inheritance
  • The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts
  • The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
  • The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale
  • The Skipping Shoes
  • Thoreau’s Flute
  • Transcendental Wild Oats
  • Under the Lilacs
  • What the Bell Saw and Said
  • Work: A Story of Experience

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