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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerso…
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culture · American novelist (1832–1888) · writer · nurse · poet · novelist · children's writer · teacher · domestic worker · suffragist · also Louisa May Alcott, Louisa Mary Alcott, Flora Fairchild, A. M. Barnard, Flora Fairfield, Tribulation Periwinkle
Born 29 November 1832 · Died 6 March 1888 · Q185696
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2024· 1 entry
New York Post: Scholar finds poems, stories believed to be written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonym
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2023· 2 entries
Fox News: On this day in history, November 29, 1832, 'Little Women' author Louisa May Alcott is born in Philadelphia
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Jewish Journal: Louisa May Alcott Doesn’t Need to Be Trans To Be a Trans Icon
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2021· 1 entry
Doctorate candidate Max Chapnick discovered a possible new pseudonym, E
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2019· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: The New ‘Little Women’ Brings Louisa May Alcott’s Real Life to the Big Screen
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2016· 1 entry
Time: Google Doodle Celebrates Louisa May Alcott’s 184th Birthday
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2009· 1 entry
As part of the American Masters biography series and was aired a second time on May 20, 2018
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1996).
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1958· 1 entry
1970, 1978, and 2017, anime versions in 1981 and 1987, and a 2005 musical
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1938· 1 entry
Was the first biography to focus on Alcott's psychology
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1934· 1 entry
1940, and 1998, and was the basis for a 1998 television series
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1911· 1 entry
And runs the museum, allows tourists to walk through the house and learn about Louisa May Alcott
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1909· 1 entry
Belle Moses wrote Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker: A Study of Achievement, which established itself as the "first major biography" about Alcott
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1889· 1 entry
Cheney was the first person to undergo a deep study of Alcott's life, compiling the journals and letters to publish Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals
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1888· 6 entries
Died 1888-03-06.
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Just two days after her father's death and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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And expressed the wish that she could join him in death
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“Recollections of My Childhood”
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“Daleko w blasku słońca leżą moje największe aspiracje. Mogę ich nie dosięgnąć, ale mogę spoglądać w górę i widzieć ich piękno, wierzyć w nie i starać się iść tam, dokąd prowadzą.”
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“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
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1887· 1 entry
Legally adopted Anna's son, John Pratt, and made him heir to her royalties, then created a will that left her money to her remaining family
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1884· 1 entry
“What Shall the Little Children Bring”
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1882· 1 entry
Alcott became his caretaker
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1879· 1 entry
But discontinued it after her sister May's death in December
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1877· 1 entry
Alcott helped found the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston
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1870· 2 entries
Alcott joined May and a friend on a European tour
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Was displeased to find out that her publisher released a new edition without her approval
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1869· 1 entry
“Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse”
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1862· 1 entry
“With A Rose That Bloomed on the Day of John Brown's Martyrdom”
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1861· 2 entries
Alcott wanted to enlist in the Union Army but could not because she was a woman
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By asking Alcott for literary advice
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1859· 2 entries
For his involvement in anti-slavery, Alcott described it as "the execution of Saint John the Just"
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Alcott began writing for the Atlantic Monthly
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1856· 1 entry
Alcott returned to Walpole in mid-1856 to find her sister Elizabeth ill with scarlet fever.
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1855· 2 entries
And follows Alcott as she finds romance
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The Alcotts moved to Walpole, New Hampshire, where Alcott and Anna participated in the Walpole Amateur Dramatic Company
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1854· 1 entry
Attended The Boston Theatre, where she was given a pass to attend free of charge
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1852· 1 entry
“The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome”
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1849· 1 entry
Created a family newspaper, the Olive Leaf, named after the local Olive Branch
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1848· 1 entry
Alcott had work as a teacher, seamstress, governess, domestic helper, and laundress, to earn money for the family
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1843· 1 entry
Bronson and Lane established Fruitlands, a utopian community, in Harvard, Massachusetts, where the family were to live
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1840· 1 entry
After several setbacks with Temple School and a brief stay in Scituate, the Alcotts moved to Hosmer Cottage in Concord
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1834· 1 entry
Where Alcott's father established the experimental Temple School and met with other transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
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1832· 2 entries
In Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Born 1832-11-29.
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