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	Louisa May Alcott - Life and Works of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		Alcott was regarded as a celebrity and was easily able to support her family with her earnings.
	www.empirezine.com /spotlight/alcott/alcott.htm (2004 words)

	Louisa May Alcott - Books and Biography
		Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail "Abba" May was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.
		Yet sorrow was not to last long in the Alcott family as May announced her marriage to a wealthy European in 1878.
		Two days later, at the age of 56, Louisa May Alcott died in Boston, leaving a legacy in wonderful books to be admired and cherished for generations to come.
	www.readprint.com /author-1/Louisa-May-Alcott (1015 words)

	Louisa May Alcott - Biography and Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is primarily remembered for her children’s classics, especially for Little Women and its sequels.
		Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail “Abba” May was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.
		Two days later, at the age of 56, Louisa May Alcott died in Boston, leaving a behind a legacy of several books which would be admired and cherished for generations to come.
	www.online-literature.com /alcott (826 words)

	99.01.06: Louisa May Alcott: her life, her times and her literature
		In order to better instruct the students, teachers using this unit should know something about where Louisa May Alcott came from and how she “came to be.” Her family was a major part of her life: both parents encouraged her to write and her fictional characters are often based on her family.
		Bronson Alcott, her father, was eventually to become the first Superintendent of Public Schools in Boston and to be acknowledged as an educational visionary, but this fame came only after he had wandered down several career paths.
		Louisa May Alcott;s Louisa May Alcott’s first and biggest success was based on her experience with her sisters and was written in response to a publisher who asked her to write a story for girls.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/1/99.01.06.x.html (4876 words)

	Alcott, Louisa May - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Alcott, Louisa May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The author of Little Women and other US classics, Louisa May Alcott was over 30 years old when she took up writing, drawing on her own family experiences in the quiet town of Concord, Massachusetts.
		She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), but spent most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts.
		Alcott worked as a teacher, and as an army nurse in the American Civil War.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Alcott,+Louisa+May (249 words)

	L. M. Alcott
		Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia) as the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott (1799-1888).
		Alcott's last years were shadowed by the deaths of her mother and her sister May, who left behind a little daughter, Louisa May Nieriker.
		Alcott's revengeful heroines and themes from mind control and madness, hashish experimentation and opium addiction, differ radically from the domestic atmosphere of her best-known works.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lmalcott.htm (1755 words)

	Louisa May Alcott
		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.
		As Alcott's health continued to fail, she tried various doctors and "cures." When her father suffered a stroke in 1882, she established a home for him with Anna, her two sons and little Lulu at 10 Louisburg Square in Boston.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/louisamayalcott.html (2460 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louisa May Alcott (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Alcott-L.html (417 words)

	Louisa May Alcott - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868).
		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.
	www.free-definition.com /Louisa-May-Alcott.html (696 words)

	Louisa May Alcott, domestic goddess
		Domestic Goddess Louisa May Alcott is perhaps most famous for writing Little Women, (1868) a novel which is partially autobiographical and has shaped the way many women since the Victorian era have defined womanhood, family, and girlhood.
		Bronson Alcott's belief that children were tabulae rasae blended and clashed with his other belief that lighter coloring (like his) betokened a deeper spirituality and closer connection to divinity (Saxton 205).
		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)

	Educator Amos Bronson Alcott, Father of Louisa May Alcott, Was Born
		He and his wife had four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Lizzie, and May. Alcott believed that education should be a pleasant experience, and he included physical education, dance, art, music, nature study, and daily journal writing in the course of studies he established at his school.
		The financial success of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), who wrote about a family based on her own in the classic novel Little Women (1868-1869), was a big help to the Alcott family.
		The Alcotts moved to Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where Amos Alcott established the Concord Summer School of Philosophy in a converted barn.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/alcott_3 (173 words)

	Louisa May Alcott Text
		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.
		A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.
	www.louisamayalcott.org /louisamaytext.html (485 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		A prolific author of books for American girls, Louisa May Alcott is best remembered for Little Women, one of the 270 published works by the Pennsylvania-born woman.
		Beginning with the publication of the poem "Sunlight" under a pseudonym in 1851, Alcott poured forth a variety of thrillers, poems, potboilers and an occasional juvenile tale.
		In 1879, Alcott was the first woman to register in Concord when Massachusetts gave women school, tax and bond suffrage.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=8 (398 words)

	Louisa May Alcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
	sunsite.unc.edu /cheryb/women/LouisaM-Alcott.html (123 words)

	Alibris: Louisa May Alcott
		Louisa May Alcott's story describes the adventures of Plumfield's boisterous but kindhearted students with the entire Bhaer family, including Jo and Friedrich's two young sons.
		Alcott served as a nurse during the Civil War, and this is a record of her experiences.
		In her journals are found hints of Alcott's surprisingly complex persona as well as clues to her double life as an author not only of "high" literature but also of serial...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Alcott%2C%20Louisa%20May (1088 words)

	Louisa May Alcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Louisa May Alcott's career was not restricted to writing.
		Alcott became the editor of Merry's Museum, a children's magazine.
		In fact, she was the first woman to register to vote in Concord.Unlike Jo in her Little Women, Louisa May Alcott never married.
	www.famousveggie.com /lma.cfm (188 words)

	Louisa May Alcott and Bronson Alcott
		Rebecca Harding Davis's memories of meeting Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott, and Louisa May Alcott from her 1904 memoir Bits of Gossip.
		Alcott's School, Exemplifying the Principles and Methods of Moral Culture (3rd ed., revised; 1874) by Elizabeth Peabody.
		The All Alcott: Louisa May Alcott Web has links to this and other research collections, but the All Alcott site no longer includes the "Letter to Sophia Foord" on Thoreau's death because of Alcott's wish that her letters not be published.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/alcott.htm (369 words)

	Women's History ALIVE! Trivia Quiz includes Louisa May Alcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Although Alcott was a prolific writer with various pseudonyms, "Josiah Allen's Wife" was not one of them.
		1977."Louisa May Alcott's story of the March family is really the story of the Alcotts - and the truth is far different from the author's often syrupy fantasy.
		Outwardly a self sacrificing, if slightly eccentric, New England spinster, Louisa May Alcott led a rich inner life that enabled her to deal with her father's indifference and to create, under a pseudonym, heroines who smoked hashish and exacted vengeance against uncaring males" dust jacket.
	www.wmol.com /whalive/alcott.htm (211 words)

	Alcott, Louisa May on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Louisa May Alcott's Father(s) and "The Marble Woman".
		Why Jo Didn't Marry Laurie: Louisa May Alcott and The Heir of Redclyffe(1).(Critical Essay)
		Women and girls: Louisa May Alcott in her time--and ours.(Books and Arts)(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Alcott-L1.asp (583 words)

	Louisa May Alcott (1832-88)
		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 Emersonfs daughter.
		Bibliography--a list of other works written by Louisa May Alcott available at the University of Virginia.
		Orchard House - the home of the Alcott family and the site where Louisa May Alcott wrote her classic, Little Women.
	www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp /ishikawa/amlit/a/alcott19ro.htm (477 words)

	Educator Amos Bronson Alcott, Father of Louisa May Alcott, Was Born
		The father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was based on her real-life father, Amos Bronson Alcott.
		An educator and philosopher, Amos Bronson Alcott was born on November 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Connecticut.
		The son of a poor farmer of flax (a plant that is used in making linen), Alcott was almost completely self-educated.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/alcott_1 (171 words)

	About Louisa May Alcott
		11/29/1832 Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania to Bronson and Abigail May Alcott.
		Lousia is educated by her father and his close friends, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
		Considering donating your report on Louisa May Alcott.
	www.underthesun.cc /Classics/Alcott (460 words)

	Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts
		The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association is a private, not-for-profit corporation, founded in 1911.
		Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts is an Official Project of Save America's Treasures, a public-private partnership between the White House Millenium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation dedicated to the preservation of our nation's irreplaceable historic and cultural treasures for future generations.
		Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
	www.louisamayalcott.org (166 words)

	Little Women, Louisa May Alcott: Bibliography
		The following is a list of other works written by Louisa May Alcott available at the University of Virginia.
		Cheney, Ednah D. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals.
		Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/ALCOTT/lwbiblio.html (413 words)

	Louisa May Alcott and the Roles of a Lifetime: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Looks at Alcott's lesser known work, "Transcendental Wild Oats" from a biographical perspective, pays particular attention to the "role" that Alcott's mother, Abba, and her fictional counterpart, Hope Lamb, play.
		Study of four of the stories Alcott published under the A.M. Barnard pseudomyn, "Marion Earle, or Only an Actress," "La Jeune or Actress and Woman," "Pauline's Passion and Punishement," and "Behind a Mask." Particular attention is paid to the theatrical nature of women's roles in these stories and in general.
		Study of Alcott's most famous work, Little Women, examines the roles that the March girls play and where these roles fit into a feminist discussion.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/thesis.htm (227 words)

	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Her "juvenile stories emphasize self-sacrifice and devotion to duty" (Bedell 8); whereas, Alcott's thrillers examine the darker side of human nature andcriticize the Victorian ideal of femininity as unrealistic and false.
		It is my hope that this study can help to illuminate yet another woman writer who persevereddespite overwhelming odds, the feeling that her own writing lacked legitimacy, and the suspicion that the things she did gain her name forcreating lacked truth and passion.
		This nexus of disrupted and disruptive bodies emerges most clearly in the work of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), a writer whose life and career were profoundly shaped, metaphorically as well as literally, by the Civil War and its aftermath.
	www.ipl.org /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=alc-178 (548 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is arguably the most widely read 19th-century author in America.
		The reference descriptions of characters, books, and articles written by Alcott, as well as people who were influential in her life are listed alphabetically and in bold-faced print, thus making topics easier to find.
		A high school English class that is reading works by Alcott will find this book helpful in describing people or places that she makes reference to in her writing.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313308/0313308969.html (457 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: A: Alcott, Louisa May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Louisa May Alcott - Pictures, location, and directions to the place where she is buried with biographical information, photograph, and interactive visitor comments.
		Louisa May Alcott - The Life and Works of - Concise overview of the author and her works.
		Louisa May Alcott, Domestic Goddess - Examines Alcott's Little Women in light of the author's own life.
	www.dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/A/Alcott,_Louisa_May (248 words)

	Louisa May Alcott
		Louisa and her sisters, Elizabeth, May and Amy, were schooled by their father, Bronson Alcott.
		Their mother, Abigail May, raised the girls to be practical Christians.
		The financial support of the family fell to his wife and children and Louisa’s childhood was plagued by poverty.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies/113836 (808 words)

	Louisa May Alcott Quotes
		I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
		Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
		Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively.
	www.brainyquote.com /quotes/authors/l/louisa_may_alcott.html (590 words)

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