61. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). http://www.walden.org/institute/thoreau/contemporaries/A/Alcott_Louisa May/defau

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62. Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (18321888). Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.Boston Roberts Brothers, 1868. This barely disguised account http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/alcott.html

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy . Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868. This barely disguised account of Alcott family life marks the advent of the modern juvenile novel, along with Mary M. Dodge's Hans Brinker (1866) and Thomas B. Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). In this tale of coming of age in nineteenth-century New England, Alcott portrayed childhood and adolescence with realism, naturalism and sincerity, even to the point of capturing the speech patterns and behavior of teenagers. This was quite unconventional for the fiction of her time. When Little Women was published in the fall of 1868, only a small number was printed, and these did not sell well. As a consequence, when the second part was issued the following year, it too was printed in a small edition, but became extremely popular, awakening the public to the first part, both of which were soon sold out. Thus the first issues of Little Women and Little Women, Part Second

63. Work & Society -- Louisa May Alcott Bibliography Louisa May Alcott, 18321888. Her work was greatly influenced byseveral major literary figures that were friends of the family. http://bizntech.rutgers.edu/worknlit/alcott_bib.html

Return Home Course Texts Requirements Syllabus ... How to Use the Forum Louisa May Alcott (1) see also Alcott 2 by Heather Paullus Links to Online Resources Books and Articles Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She came from a family that was stricken with poverty, and made a promise to herself that she would do whatever it took to make a living that would support those she loved. She performed many jobs before finding a profitable profession as a writer. Most of the jobs that she performed served as the basis for her short stories and novels. She worked as a "teacher, seamstress, a household servant, and a nurse" (Schafer 3). Her first major success as a writer was a novel entitled Hospital Sketches, which was based on her experiences as a Civil War nurse at Union Hospital in Washington, DC. Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888

64. Alcott, Louisa May (Litteraturnettet) Alcott, Louisa May USA 18321888. E-tekst Project Gutenberg Tekst. Lenker AlcottWeb.comFanside Books and Writers. SØK ETTER Alcott, Louisa May. SØK I http://litteraturnettet.no/a/alcott.louisa.may.asp?lang=&type=etekst

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66. Literary 1: Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott 18321888. Author/Novel Little Women (1868). LouisaMay Alcott was born in Germantown, PA, on Nov. 29, 1832, the http://daphne.palomar.edu/scrout/literary.htm

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Author/Novel: Little Women Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, PA, on Nov. 29, 1832, the second daughter of Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott. The family moved in 1834 to Boston, MA where Amos set up an experimental school that failed due to lack of students. The Alcotts had to move to Concord, MA where family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave financial support. Louisa and her three sisters (Anna, Elizabeth and Abba) continued to be instructed in Mr. Alcott's progressive educational style. Amos and Abigail were both progressive educators and part of the Transcendental Movement in America. Even though the Alcotts were relatively poor, they were rich in friends who were in the forefront of America's literary elite. The countryside of New England provided a physical and mental stimulus for the Alcott girls who worked and played hard. As Louisa got older she sought a variety of odd jobs to try to support the impoverished family. Usually poor women were expected to do other people's laundry, sewing, cooking and caring for the elderly or infirmed. Louisa May wanted to write but publishing did not pay enough. Some of her early work was written under the pen name, Flora Fairchild. Her first published work was a poem ,"Sunlight"(1851), but it brought very little money. In 1855, she published her first book

67. Daily Celebrations ~ Louisa May Alcott, Love Is The Only Thing ~ November 29 ~ I Carrying love in her heart, novelist Louisa May Alcott (18321888) was born on thisday in Germantown, Pennsylvania and raised in Massachusetts, the second of http://www.dailycelebrations.com/112900.htm

November 29 ~  Love Is the Only Thing Little Women Love is the o n l y thing that we can c a r r y with us w h e n we go, and it makes the end s o easy." ~ Louisa May Alcott Carrying love in her heart , novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was born on this day in Germantown, Pennsylvania and raised in Massachusetts , the second of four daughters. "Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her," she wrote and helped support her impoverished family. Tutored by her father's transcendentalist friends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau , Alcott was a nurse in a Union hospital during the Civil War. She is best known for Little Women (1868), the autobiographical and heartwarming story of Jo March and her family. "Paid up all the debts . . . thank the Lord!" young Miss Alcott wrote in her journal about the novel's success "Stories of the heart are what live in the memory and when...you move the reader to tears you have won them to you forever." She created other similar stories,with rich imagination and sentimentality An Old-Fashioned Girl Little Men Jo's Boys (1886) and others.

68. Louisa May Alcott Biography Louisa May Alcott (18321888). Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcottwas born on 29 November, 1832 on her father s 33rd birthday. She http://www.applebookshop.co.uk/author/alcott.htm

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott was born on 29 November, 1832 on her father's 33rd birthday. She was the second of four daughters to Amos and his wife Abba May and was brought up in Concord, Massachusetts. Educated at home Louisa was fascinated by books and from an early age recalls 'playing with books in my father's study - looking at pictures, pretending to read, and scribbling on blank pages whenever pen or pencil could be found'. Alcott never married, and many of her essays explore the possibilities of a single life for women. In 1862 she volunteered as a nurse in a Civil War army hospital in Washington but after only six weeks she contracted typhoid fever and was forced to return home. The break from her family and her experiences gave her the material for her first successful book, Hospital Sketches. The success of Little Women in 1868 brought both fame and the financial security she had so long desired for her family and she went on to write other stories in the same vein; An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870); Little Men (1871); Eight Cousins (1875); Rose in Bloom (1876); Jo's Boys (1886) and others. In 1871 Alcott visited Europe and on her return to Boston became involved with women's suffrage and temperance movements. Alcott died in Boston in 1888, the same day her father was buried."

69. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Louisa May Alcott (18321888). 114-19; Alma J. Payne, “Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888),” American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 6 (1973) 27-43. http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/alcott.htm

Prof. Waller Hastings Northern State University Aberdeen, SD 57401 Louisa May Alcott LIFE: Griffith and Frey note that Little Women draws extensively on the author's own personal and family history - with Jo as Louisa. She lived in Concord, Mass, the second daughter of transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott. Her mother (Abigail) was the model for Marmee, her three sisters for the other “Little Women” (Anna/Meg, Elizabeth/Beth, May/Amy). Alcott wrote it intentionally as a "girl's story," although she was not fond of the genre; nevertheless, it has become one of if not the most popular such stories ever written. Note that her own family life was less "normal" than that of the Marches. Her father was impractical and improvident - e.g., he nearly starved family to death pursuing utopian vegetarian dream at farm outside Concord. So Aunt March’s complaints about Mr. March were more justifiable applied to the Alcotts. The Alcotts were saved because Abigail took control of the purse strings, leaving father to philosophize. Alcott began early to work to help support her family through various domestic or teaching positions. She volunteered as a nurse in the Union Army in 1862, serving around Washington (whence comes Mr. March’s war service in the novel). She became ill on this service, leaving her a permanent semi-invalid (from mercury poisoning via the medicine she took). She never married. According to Showalter, the experience of curbing her imaginative life to accommodate the moral climate of Concord and her family, and commercial demands on her time, kept her from achieving her full promise - but she does reflect the "tension between female obligation and artistic freedom."

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CivilWarTalk.com - A free and friendly Civil War community. Back What's New? Site Search Site Map E-Mail This Page ... Donate Women in the Civil War Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888 Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside"). Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...." For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens." At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"

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By keywords By authors By titles Home ... webmaster LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) Little women Louisa Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on 29th November, 1832. Alcott was educated by her father, Bronson Alcott, the head of Temple School in Boston. As a young woman she was befriended by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, she wrote her first book, Flower Fables, when she was only sixteen. During the American Civil War Alcott worked as a nurse in a Union Army hospital (1861-63). However, after contracting typhoid in 1863 she was sent home. She documented her war experiences in her book Hospital Sketches (1863). Alcott also had some of her short stories published in Atlantic Monthly. Alcott achieved literary success with the publication of her autobiographical novel Little Women (1868) and its sequel, Good Wives (1869). Other novels aimed at the youth market included An Old Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1876) and Rose in Bloom (1876). Alcott later described these books as "moral pap for the young". Alcott also wrote two feminist novels, Work, A Study of Experience (1873), and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877). Louisa Alcott died in Boston on 6th March, 1888.

72. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, L. M. Alcott, 1881 An OldFashioned Thanksgiving. By Louisa May Alcott. (1832-1888).From An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving and Other Stories, by Louisa http://www.eldritchpress.org/lma/oft.html

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving By Louisa May Alcott From An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving and Other Stories, by Louisa May Alcott, Penguin Books, 1995, ISBN 0-14-600110-9, an inexpensive Penguin 60s paperback. November, 1881 S IXTY YEARS AGO, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, and clothed the flock, while mutual patience, affection, and courage made the old farmhouse a very happy home. November had come; the crops were in, and barn, buttery, and bin were overflowing with the harvest that rewarded the summer's hard work. The big kitchen was a jolly place just now, for in the great fireplace roared a cheerful fire; on the walls hung garlands of dried apples, onions, and corn; up aloft from the beams shone crook-necked squashes, juicy hams, and dried venisonfor in those days deer still haunted the deep forests, and hunters flourished. Savory smells were in the air; on the crane hung steaming kettles, and down among the red embers copper saucepans simmered, all suggestive of some approaching feast. A white-headed baby lay in the old blue cradle that had rocked six other babies, now and then lifting his head to look out, like a round, full moon, then subsided to kick and crow contentedly, and suck the rosy apple he had no teeth to bite. Two small boys sat on the wooden settle shelling corn for popping, and picking out the biggest nuts from the goodly store their own hands had gathered in October. Four young girls stood at the long dresser, busily chopping meat, pounding spice, and slicing apples; and the tongues of Tilly, Prue, Roxy, and Rhody went as fast as their hands. Farmer Bassett, and Eph, the oldest boy, were "chorin' 'round" outside, for Thanksgiving was at hand, and all must be in order for that time-honored day.

73. Søgeresultat - Bibliotek.dk xi, 355 s., illustreret Forlag Duke University Press Sprog Engelsk Emne Alcott,Louisa May, 18321888 ; Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 ; Moore, Marianne, 1887 http://bibliotek.dk/vis.php?base=dfa&term1=Alcott Louisa May

74. Louisa May Alcott - Louisa May Alcott writer 1832-1888. Louisa May Alcott was for yearsbest known for her much-read children s literature, Little http://www.wvhumanities.org/louisam.htm

Louisa May Alcott - writer Louisa May Alcott was for years best known for her much-read children's literature, Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys . Today the lurid (for the 19th century) tales she penned to help support her family can be found among best-selling paperbacks and on library shelves. Her family counted among their friends notable figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott practiced her beliefs, working for the right of women to vote, the temperance movement, and the abolition of slavery. portrayed by: Arla Ralston arlakr@aol.com The Characters Louisa May Alcott Anne Bailey Margaret Blennerhassett Pearl Buck ... Return to History Alive Main Page

75. Flashback - The Stories Of Louisa May Alcott July 1995 With a hit movie last year based on her novel Little Women and a newbook out this fall, Louisa May Alcott (18321888) is fast becoming one of http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/aandc/alcott/alcott.htm

The Stories of Louisa May Alcott July 1995 W ith a hit movie last year based on her novel Little Women and a new book out this fall, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is fast becoming one of today's more commercially successful writers. Until recently, her literary reputation had been more or less synonymous with the guileless charm of the perennial favorite, Little Women a chronicle of four sisters' girlhood and coming of age. But today a very different facet of Alcott's literary oeuvre is gaining attention and emphasis. That she wrote a number of sensationalistic gothic romance novels under a pen name is a fact that has been known for nearly fifty years, but one that has been largely downplayed as merely the consequence of a need to produce commercially appealing work in order to support her financially hapless father. In the wake of resurgent interest in the author spawned by the recent success of "Little Women," however, the unearthing and publication of an Alcott novel bearing the provocative title A Long Fatal Love Chase has caused something of a stir. Popular perceptions of Alcott as simply a sympathetic storyteller for young girls are giving way to more sophisticated characterizations of her as a writer who also addressedoften melodramatically and suggestivelymore adult concerns.

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77. Anecdote - Louisa May Alcott - Louisa May Alcott Will you come? Alcott s reply? Never. Alcott, Louisa May (18321888) Americanwriter and reformer noted for her autobiographical novel Little Women (1868 http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=8642

78. Louisa May Alcott. Libros En Español Vida y obras de Louisa May Alcott. Libros electrónicos gratuitos, enlaces y todo tipo de recursos. de 1832 en Germantown, Pa., U.S. Falleció el 6 de Marzo 6 de 1888 en Boston. Vida y obras Louisa May Alcott es Padre de Louisa May, el Sr. Bronson http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/alcott_es.htm

Busque un escritor: (primer apellido) O recorra nuestra lista: A B C D ... Z Desea aparecer en estas páginas? Tiene una historia para publicar? Envíe sus datos 40 millones de libros usados INICIO Autor: Alcottt, Louisa May English version Fecha y lugar de nacimiento: Nació el 29 de Nov. de 1832 en Germantown, Pa., U.S. Falleció el 6 de Marzo 6 de 1888 en Boston Vida y obras: Louisa May Alcott es conocida sobre todo por su obra clásica "Mujercitas" , la historia de cuatro hermanas creciendo juntas en una ciudad de Nueva Inglaterra a mediados del siglo XIX. El Padre de Louisa May, el Sr. Bronson Alcott, fue un filósofo y reformador educativo cuyos proyectos ideales mantuvieron a la familia en una pobreza constante, de la que no consiguieron salir hasta la publicación de "Mujercitas" . Sin embargo, la familia Alcott fue rica por lo que respecta a sus amistades, que incluyeron algunas figuras notables como Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, y Nathaniel Hawthorne. Las hermanas March Meg, Jo, Beth, y Amy han sido inmortalizadas asimismo en algunos largometrajes; la más famosa "Jo" fue Katherine Hepburn. Louisa pasó la mayor parte de su vida en Boston y Concord (Massachussets), creciendo en la compañía de Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau. Se dió cuenta rápidamente de que su padre era demasiado poc práctico para mantener a su mujer y cuatro hijas; después del fracaso de "Fruitlands", una comunidad utópica que había fundado, comenzó la preocupación de Louisa por el bienestar de la familia, circunstancia que se prolongaría durante toda su vida. Impartió clases durante un breve período de tiempo, trabajó como asistenta, y finalmente empezó a escribir, produciendo obras para ganar algún dinero al principio, y paulatinamente trabajos más serios. Después del inicio de la Guerra Civil Americana se hizo enfermera voluntaria y contrajo las fiebres tifoideas debido a las nada saludables condiciones hospitalarias y fue enviada a casa. Nunca volvió a recuperar completamente la salud, pero la publicación de sus cartas en forma de libro

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80. Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888 Louisa May Alcott, 1832 1888 Author of this Webpage Renée GoodvinText-Only Version. Louisa May Alcott was an American author http://www.geocities.com/blondelibrarian/literaryexplorer/authors/lmalcott.html

Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888 Author of this Webpage: Renée Goodvin Text-Only Version L ouisa May Alcott was an American author who wrote sensational tales and thrillers, but achieved fame with her semi-autobiographical book, Little Women Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the second of four daughters of Abba May and Bronson Alcott. Louisa and her sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May grew up in Massachusetts with significant New England authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller as friends and neighbors. The entire Alcott family was talented and immensely literate. Though often unemployed, Bronson Alcott was a transcendentalist philosopher and radical educator who had a profound influence on Louisa's life. Louisa never married, yet from a fairly young age she began helping support her entire family by working as a domestic, a teacher, and eventually a writer. While never directly involved, Alcott was a staunch abolitionist and supported the women's suffrage and temperance movements. Her feminist views are best seen in the sensational tales and thrillers of female power, unhappiness, and revenge she wrote under the pseudonym "A.M. Barnard." In 1868, Alcott responded to a publisher's request for a "girls' book." Drawing upon the journals she was encouraged to keep as a girl and her memories and experiences of her own family and growing up, Alcott produced the domestic novel

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