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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born on 29 November 1832 in Germantown , Pennsylvania . Alcott is second daughter of Abigail `Abba' and Amos Bronson Alcott. Abigail worked as women's suffrage and abolitionist advocate and Amos Bronson Alcott worked as transcendentalist philosopher and social reformer who helped found the controversial and pioneering Temple School in Boston , Massachusetts in 1834. Amos Bronson also played an active role in the education of Louisa along with his three sisters Anna, Elizabeth, and May.
At the age of fifteen Alcott started to contribute to the family income with various place of duty including teacher, seamstress and servant. She was also encouraged by her family and friends to write poems, sketches and plays, acted out by her and her sisters. A quantity of her first poems was published namelessly or under the alias `A.N. Barnard' and her first collection of works, Flower Fables was published in 1854.
During the American Civil War (1862-1863) she served as a nurse for almost six weeks in the Union Hospital at Georgetown , D.C. Her letters home – reworked and published in the Commonwealth and composed as Hospital Sketches (1863, republished with additions in 1869). These novels gained her first critical recognition for her observations and humor. The novel Moods based on her own experience, even more promising.
She also wrote passionate, scorching novels and amazing stories under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard . Among those novels ‘ A Long Fatal Love Chase' , ‘ Pauline's Passion' and ‘Punishment' was wildly popular at the time and they achieved immediate success. Alcott also wrote wholesome stories for children which have been collected in Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (1872-82)
Louisa May Writings
Flower Fables (1855)
Hospital Sketches (1863)
The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
Moods (1865: rev. ed. 1882)
Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power (1866)
Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867)
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
Three Proverb Stories (includes "Kitty's Class Day," "Aunt Kipp," and "Psyche's Art") (1868)
Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872-1882)
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of "Work," (1875)
Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill (1875)
Silver Pitchers, and Independence : A Centennial Love Story (1876)
Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins," 1876)
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
Under the Lilacs (1877)
Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
The Candy Country (1885)
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men," (1886)
Lulu's Library (1886-1889)
A Garland for Girls (1888)
Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the "Little Women," (1893)
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