Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Louisa May Alcott (Germantown, Pennsylvania; November 29, 1832 - Boston, Massachusetts; March 6, 1888) was an American writer, recognized for her famous novel Little Women (1868). Committed to the abolitionist movement and suffrage, she wrote under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard a collection of novels and stories dealing with taboo subjects for the time such as adultery and incest. Her parents were Abigail ("Abba") May and the transcendentalist educator, writer, and philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott, linked to abolitionism, women's suffrage, and educational reform. Louisa had three sisters, Anna, Lizzie, and Abba May. His brother Dapper died while still a child, growing up and living in New England. The four sisters were educated in their own home by their father, while receiving visits from illustrious neighbors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller or Ralph Waldo Emerson. At an early age, to help her family financially, she began to work sporadically as a teacher, seamstress, governess and writer; his first book was Flower Fables (1855), made up of stories originally written for Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson.