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"Wherever I turn I see the yoke on woman in some form or other. On some it sits easy, for they are but beasts of burden. On others, pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made, for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.'"
- Journal of Mrs. Alcott, 1843
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(Click here for OEP Publication Abbreviation Codes and Meanings )
1849 - The Inheritance [F] (First published 1997)
1854 - Flower Fables [F,CH]
1863 - Hospital Sketches [F,CH]
1864 - On Picket Duty and Other Tales [F]
1865 - Moods [F]
1866 - A Long Fatal Love Chase [F] (First published 1995)
1867 - Morning-Glories and Other Stories [F]
1868 - Will's Wonder Book aka Louisa's Wonder Book (1975) [F]
1868 - Little Women aka Meg, Job, Beth and Amy [F,CH]
1869 - Good Wives [F,CH] (Part 2 of Little Women)
1870 - An Old-Fashioned Girl [F,CH]
1870 - Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys [F,CH]
1872 - My Boys. (Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Series) [F,CH]
1872 - Shawl Straps. (Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Series)[F,CH]
1873 - Transcendental Wild Oats, A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance. [F] (published in Independent)
1873 - Work, A Story of Experience [F,CH]
1873 - Cupid and Chow-Chow. (Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Series)[F,CH]
1874 - How I Went Out to Service. 1874. (published in Independent)
1875 - Eight Cousins aka The Aunt Hill [F,CH]
1876 - Rose in Bloom [F,CH]
1876 - Silver Pitchers, and Independence, A Centennial Love Story. [F]
1877 - A Modern Mephistopheles [F, ANON]
1878 - Under The Lilacs [F,CH]
1878 - My Girls. (Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Series) [F,CH]
1879 - Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore. (Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Series)[F,CH]
1879 - Diana and Persis (unfinished) [F]
1881 - Jack and Jill, A Village Story [F,CH]
1882 - Proverb Stories [F]
1882 - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving. (Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Series)[F,CH]
1884 - Spinning-Wheel Stories [F,CH]
1886 - Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out [F,CH] (A Sequel to Little Men)
1886 - A Christmas Dream. (Lulu's Library Series)
1887 - The Frost King (Lulu's Library Series)
1888 - A Garland for Girls.
1889 - Recollections. (Lulu's Library Series)
1889 - Comic Tragedies.
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(1832-1888) - Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and grew up with her parents and three sisters: Anna, Elizabeth, and May. Her only brother died in infancy. From Germantown the family relocated twice, first to Boston and finally to Concord. As children Louisa and her sisters enjoyed playing in their barn. Here they would begin to write stories and perform plays for their neighbors.
When Louisa's father's began to fail the family found money to be scarce. Lousia was 16 now and she began writing stories and sending them out for publication. While teaching she would make up fairy tales to tell the students. These tales were compiled into one novel and were released as her first book, Flower Fables, in 1854.
Writer of juvenile and other tales, dau. of Amos Bronson Alcott, an educational and social theorist, lecturer, and author. During the American civil war she served as a nurse, and afterwards attained celebrity as a writer of books for young people.
Lousia wrote over 200 stories and novels during her lifetime but is most well known for the novel Little Women, which she had to be coaxed by her publiser to write. It is the most heartfelt and realistic of Ms. Alcott's stories because it is based on her childhood in Concord. When the story was such a huge success she continued the story with two more parts, Little Men and Jo's Boys.
During her lifetime she not only wrote stories, but also gathered ideas to help with the abolition of slavery and the women's right to vote.
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Date of birth: November 29, 1832
Place of birth: Germantown, Pennsylvania
Date of death: March 6, 1888
Place of death: Boston, Massachusetts
Genre: American Novelist and Children's Author
Father's name: Amos Bronson Alcott
Mother's name: Abigail May
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