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 | | Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in German town, Pennsylvania, where her father, Bronson Alcott—a transcendentalist philosopher and an educator—directed a school for small children. |
 | | An advocate of women's rights, Alcott remained unmarried in an age when marriage and motherhood were considered the central events of a woman's life, and achieved such a degree of literary success that she was able to pay off the family's huge debt with royalties from her writing. |
 | | Louisa May Alcott's father, Bronson Alcott, was a leading figure in the philosophical school known as transcendentalism, as was the Alcotts' neighbor in Concord, Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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