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	Louisa May Alcott - Biography and Works
		Alcott wrote many other highly acclaimed works in her time and was an active supporter of the women’s suffrage and abolition movements, but it is her wholesome tales penned from her own experiences growing up that she is best remembered.
		Alcott had become friends with fellow transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose vast library she regularly frequented, and Henry David Thoreau, whom she accompanied on walks in the countryside.
		Alcott’s mother Abigail had died in 1877 and in 1878 her sister May married and had a daughter named after her, Louisa `Lulu’ May. May died a year later.
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	Louisa May Alcott - MSN Encarta
		Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
		The characters are based on Louisa and her sisters, and each of these “little women” wrestles with an inner flaw: Meg (Anna Alcott in real life) with vanity, Beth (Elizabeth) with excessive gentleness and timidity, Jo (Louisa) with a hot temper, and Amy (May) with selfishness.
		Alcott devoted the last years of her life to her writing, to caring for one of her nieces, and to the temperance movement, which worked to prohibit the drinking of alcohol.
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	Louisa May Alcott, domestic goddess
		He thought that teaching Louisa to suppress her natural inclinations for self-expression and difference in favor of what he perceived as better habits was part of his job in life, and Louisa seemed to see her life as one of struggle between her own will and submission to her father's (Sanderson 43).
		Thus, Louisa was unable to participate in a public declaration of her own identity, and so had to try in private, through her writing, to do so.
		Louisa, on the other hand, may have struggled with her will, but in the end she gave in to it, despite her fear of Bronson's displeasure.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/lma.htm (1169 words)

	Louisa May Alcott
		Alcott told his family that they would be able to eat “whole grains, maple syrup, nuts, fruits, and vegetables” (Papashvily).
		Alcott seemed unable to cope with life, he always wanted to stick to his ideals, as the girls got older they contributed to the family to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.
		Louisa was actively involved in women’s suffrage and in 1879 she was the first woman to register to vote in Concord.
	www.wsu.edu /~jenrich/English381/381Reports/LouisaMayAlcottDarcy.htm (605 words)

	Louisa May Alcott Biography
		Boston, MA Louisa May Alcott, an author world-renowned for her classic novels Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys, was born Bronson and Abigail "Abba" May Alcott's second daughter on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
		Louisa also wrote many "blood and thunder" tales, which were Gothic thriller stories published in popular magazines of the time, also called, "pot boilers." However, she always used a pseudonym, usually A.M. Barnard, or chose to remain completely anonymous.
		Of her mother, Louisa said, "I think she is a very brave, good woman and my dream is to have a lovely, quiet home for her, with no debts or troubles to burden her." Soon after, Bronson Alcott was appointed to the honorary position of superintendent of the Concord Schools (paying $100 annually).
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	Louisa May Alcott
		Alcott, the second of four daughters, was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts.
		Her mother, Abigail May Alcott, was descended from the witch-burning Judge Samuel Sewall and the noted abolitionist Colonel Joseph May. Although severely impoverished, Alcott's childhood was apparently happy.
		Alcott later recounted her experiences as a nurse in her popular Hospital Sketches (1863) which was originally published in the periodical Commonwealth.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/st/~kelliej2/alcott.html (1054 words)

	Today in History: November 29
		Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher and transcendentalist philosopher, and Abigail May, social worker and reformer, was born in the "disagreeable month" of November, just like her literary creation Jo March, the rambunctious heroine of Little Women.
		Louisa and her sisters were always welcome to participate in the conversations of the poets, philosophers, and reformers that made up their parents' circle.
		During the 1870s, Alcott and her mother were deeply involved in the women's suffrage movement, canvassing door-to-door encouraging women to register to vote.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov29.html (2191 words)

	Alcott, Louisa May LiteraryTraveler.com
		Louisa May Alcott is one of few women who enjoyed immediate success in writing during her lifetime.
		Alcott was also involved in the women's suffrage movement and regularly contributed to "The Woman's Journal" to encourage women to vote.
		Alcott published her final book, Jo's Boys, in 1886 and died two years later of complications from mercury poisoning on March 6, 1888.
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	Louisa May Alcott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louisa May Alcott published literature for children under her own name, but she used pseudonyms for her numerous Gothic thrillers.
		Alcott herself was the first woman in Concord, Massachusetts, to register to vote when the state granted women school, tax, and bond suffrage; one of her many biographers has her going door to door to urge other women to do the same.
		In Alcott's early diaries, she appeared to be very much like Jo: determined to make her own way (and in Alcott's case, to ease her family's perpetually strained circumstances) and to have other people know that.
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	Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
		Students, however, may be perplexed as to why Christie equates acting first with rebellion, then with the loss of her womanliness.
		But Alcott's contemporaries may also have believed that the element of duplicity involved in acting was incompatible with their ideal of woman as simple, artless, without guile.
		Alcott's use of theatricals can be fruitfully compared to that of Jane Austen in Mansfield Park, Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre and Villette, and Edith Wharton in The House of Mirth.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/alcott.html (1492 words)

	NYPL, Louisa May Alcott
		As the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, Transcendental philosopher and educational reformer, and Abigail May Alcott, one of the first paid social workers in Massachusetts, her days were spent in a progressive intellectual environment which included such family friends as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		Alcott was always a strong advocate for social reforms, including abolition, prison reform, and temperance, but her primary efforts were directed towards the cause of women’s suffrage.
		Alcott delved into all aspects of female emancipation in her letters to Woman’s Journal, and it was a source of great pride to her that, towards the end of the decade, when Concord allowed women to vote in local elections, she was the first to register.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/grd/resguides/alcott/index.html (822 words)

	Alcott, Louisa May
		You may recognize the name Louisa May Alcott because she was the author of Little Women.”; The famous novel about four sisters growing up in a New England town during the mid 1800s attracted readers young and old.
		Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.
		Louisa May Alcott was very much influenced by her father’s ideals.
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	Louisa May Alcott
		Louisa's mother's family were members of King's Chapel (Unitarian) in Boston, and that is where her father and mother, Bronson and Abigail May were married in 1830.
		Louisa was born in Germantown, Pa., where her father was a teacher in a Quaker community.
		Louisa Alcott's was a truly religious soul; she always lived in the consciousness of a Higher Power sustaining and blessing her, whose presence was revealed to her through Nature, through the inspired words of great thinkers and the deep experiences of her own heart.
	www.uuquincy.org /projects/stamps/15louisamayalcott.htm (442 words)

	Little Women, Louisa May Alcott: About the Author
		Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail "Abba" May was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.
		Louisa enjoyed the county atmosphere of Concord and found her time divided between acting out plays with her sisters which she had written, and nature walks with Henry David Thoreau.
		Louisa saw that her loving heart was need by more than just her family and she headed for Washington, DC.
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	Louisa May Alcott Text
		Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.
		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").
		When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868.
	www.louisamayalcott.org /louisamaytext.html (485 words)

	the biography of Louisa May Alcott - life story
		Louisa May Alcott was the second of four daughters, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts.
		Taught by her father, Alcott was deeply influenced by his transcendentalist thought and experimental educational philosophies.
		Alcott is best known for her sentimental yet realistic depictions of nineteenth-century domestic life.
	www.poemhunter.com /louisa-may-alcott/biography/poet-33823 (1284 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureLouisa May Alcott - Author Page
		Louisa May Alcott is best known for her children's novel Little Women (1868), but there are almost three hundred works in the Alcott canon.
		Louisa was born in 1832 to Abigail May (Abba) and Amos Bronson Alcott.
		Alcott also did not want to be identified with the popular "scribbling" ladies of her time; she wanted to be identified with the great writers she had known since childhood.
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	Publishers' Bindings Online: Louisa May Alcott
		Alcott’s writing not only informs readers about the period in which she wrote, but it also reveals volumes about her life and family.
		The reform-minded Abigail May was involved in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.
		May lived long enough to name her daughter Louisa May, and she asked Alcott to raise her namesake.
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		Bertie Changes His Mind (by P G Wodehouse)
		Fate in a Fan (by Louisa May Alcott)
		V V or Plots and Counterplots (by Louisa May Alcott)
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	Louisa May Alcott
		Louisa May Alcott is best known for her creation of the classic work "Little Women", the story of four sisters growing up in a New England town during the mid 1800s.
		Alcott's father, Bronson, was a philosopher and educational reformer whose idealistic projects kept the family in poverty; financial security did not come until "Little Women".
		However, the Alcott family was rich in their friends, which included such noted figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
	www.ibiblio.org /cheryb/women/LouisaM-Alcott.html (123 words)

	Remembering the Alcotts LiteraryTraveler.com
		Alcott's main partner was a man named Charles Lane, an admirer of Alcott's who left England to form the commune.
		The constant travel by Alcott and Lane, who were off expounding their views to others around the region, strained the working conditions on the farm.
		Years later, Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old during her tenure at Fruitlands, would present the world with a fictionalized version of this tale, in the form of the story Transcendental Wild Oats.
	www.literarytraveler.com /literary_articles/louisa_may_alcott.aspx (369 words)

	Cordula's Web. Louisa May Alcott
		She was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May, and though of New England parentage and residence, was born in Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Alcott's early education had included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau but had chiefly been in the hands of her father, and in her girlhood and early womanhood she had fully shared the trials and poverty incident to the life of a peripatetic idealist.
		The story of her life and career was initially competently told in Ednah D. Cheney's Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (Boston, 1889) and then in Madeleine B. Stern's seminal biography Louisa May Alcott (University of Oklahoma Press, 1950).
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	Literary 1: Louisa May Alcott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, PA, on Nov. 29, 1832, the second daughter of Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott.
		Louisa and her three sisters (Anna, Elizabeth and Abba) continued to be instructed in Mr.
		Actually, Alcott began writing at a very early age, since part of her father's radical education was to encourage each pupil to keep a diary /journal.
	daphne.palomar.edu /scrout/literary.htm (833 words)

	Louisa May Alcott
		Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832-March 6, 1888), best known as the author of Little Women, was an advocate of abolition, women's rights, and temperance.
		Louisa was the second daughter of Bronson Alcott and Abigail May, who met while Abigail was visiting her brother, Samuel J. May, minister of the Unitarian church in Brooklyn, Connecticut.
		Alcott's "small share" was a month's service during the winter of 1862-63 as a nurse at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown, Virginia.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/louisamayalcott.html (2464 words)

	Alcott, Louisa May. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Mostly educated by her father, she was a friend of Emerson and Thoreau, and her first book, Flower Fables (1854), was a collection of tales originally created to amuse Emerson’s daughter.
		Alcott was determined to contribute to the small family income and worked as a servant and a seamstress before she made her fortune as a writer.
		She also wrote novels for adults, including Work (1873), which is grounded in Alcott’s experiences as a breadwinner for her family, and the unfinished Diana and Persis, an examination of the relationship between two women artists.
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