Louisa May Alcott Novelist
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Nov 29, 1832
- Died: Mar 6, 1888
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults in juvenile hall.
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. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
truth
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
faith
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
mom
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
learning
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
women
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
learning
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
money
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
money & women
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.
good
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
women