Louisa May Alcott Facts
Occupation: writer. Briefly: tutor (of Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson), nurse.
Known for: Little Women and other children's stories, connections to other Transcendentalist thinkers and writers
Dates: November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888
Also known as: L. M. Alcott, Louisa M. Alcott, A. M. Barnard, Flora Fairchild, Flora Fairfield
Family:
Father: Amos Bronson Alcott, Transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter, founder of Fruitlands, a utopian community which failed
Mother: Abigail May, relative of abolitionist Samuel May
Louisa was the second of four daughters
Marriage, Children: Louisa May Alcott never married. She was a guardian for her sister's daughter and adopted a nephew.
Louisa May Alcott Biography:
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, but the family quickly moved to Massachusetts, a location with which Alcott and her father are usually associated.
As was common at the time, she had little formal education, taught mainly by her father using his unconventional ideas about education. She read from the library of neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson and learned botany from Henry David Thoreau.
Louisa May Alcott FactsOccupation: writer. Briefly: tutor (of Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson), nurse.Known for: Little Women and other children's stories, connections to other Transcendentalist thinkers and writersDates: November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888Also known as: L. M. Alcott, Louisa M. Alcott, A. M. Barnard, Flora Fairchild, Flora FairfieldFamily:Father: Amos Bronson Alcott, Transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter, founder of Fruitlands, a utopian community which failedMother: Abigail May, relative of abolitionist Samuel MayLouisa was the second of four daughtersMarriage, Children: Louisa May Alcott never married. She was a guardian for her sister's daughter and adopted a nephew.Louisa May Alcott Biography:Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, but the family quickly moved to Massachusetts, a location with which Alcott and her father are usually associated.As was common at the time, she had little formal education, taught mainly by her father using his unconventional ideas about education. She read from the library of neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson and learned botany from Henry David Thoreau.
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