Louisa May Alcott is the author of Little Women. Ms. Alcott was born November 29, 1832 and died March 6, 1888. Louisa's parents were Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott. She was raised in New England. Her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard.
Alcott's early education included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau, but she received most of her schooling from her father, Amos Alcott, who was strict and believed in "the sweetness of self-denial". Only May was able to attend public school. Due to all of the difficulties, writing became an outlet to release her emotions and creativity. Her first book was Flower Fables, published in 1849. In 1860, Alcott began writing for the Atlantic Monthly. Miss Alcott published the first part of Little Women in 1968 through the Roberts Brothers. Little Women was a semi-autobiography of her childhood in Massachusetts. The "March Family Saga" ended in 1886 with the novel Jo's Boys.
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