Louisa May Alcott
Also known as A. M. Barnard, Flora Fairfield, Flora Fairchild, Louisa Alcott, Louisa M. Alcott, Louisa Mary Alcott, Tribulation Periwinkle, L.M.A.
American novelist (1832–1888)
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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist who lived from 1832 to 1888 and is best known for writing *Little Women*, a classic novel about four sisters growing up during the Civil War. Her work remains widely read and studied today because it helped establish the coming-of-age novel as a significant literary form and continues to resonate with readers across generations.
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Louisa May Alcott was an author from the United States of America. She's known specially for her novel "Little Ladies" She also wrote Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Louisa+May+Alcott">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Louisa May Alcott (/ˈɔːlkət/ AWL-kət; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). 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, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
Alcott's family experienced financial hardship, and while Alcott took on various jobs to help support the family from an early age, she also sought to earn money by writing. In the 1860s she began to achieve critical success for her writing with the publication of Hospital Sketches, a book based on her service as a nurse in the American Civil War. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults. Little Women was one of her first successful novels and has been adapted for film and television. It is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt.
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