BiographyType: Novelist Born: November 29, 1832 Died: March 6, 1888 Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were family friends. Alcott wrote under various pseudonyms and only started using her own name when she was ready to commit to writing. Her nove "l Little Women" gave Louisa May Alcott financial independence and a lifetime writing career. |
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do.
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